they re getting away with it so far. in the courts the question is whether they had a discriminatory intent with the laws. a point gene was alluded to. that s right. and especially now, under the voting rights act, in its more weakened form since last summer. it s more dif skult to get these laws struck down. one interesting point about, about this. it was enacted. hadn t gone into effect. that s because alabama itself did not try to get the law approved. they knew it was going to have a discriminatory impact wasn t going to with stand the voting rights act. gene, the reason they needed the preclearance. the permission slip in advance they systematically discriminated by race so long. they were in the category. when i talk about the voting rights act it is important to remind people most states are not in that category, it is not a necessary presumption of oversight for everyone. it is looking act the places where the discrimination has occurred. yeah, that is absolutely right.
comes out to one out of every 15 million perspective voters. that is a lot of zeros. zach, after the decimal point to show how rarely this happens. when you look at alabama. they re getting away with it so far. in the courts the question is whether they had a discriminatory intent with the laws. a point gene was alluded to. that s right. and especially now, under the voting rights act, in its more weakened form since last summer. it s more dif skult to get these laws struck down. one interesting point about, abut th about this. it was enacted. hadn t gone into effect. that s because alabama itself did not try to get the law approved. they knew it was going to have a discriminatory impact wasn t going to with stand the voting rights act. gene, the reason they needed the preclearance. the permission slip in advance they systematically discriminated by race so long.
weren t going piecemeal and now we are doing that in ways that please congress and don t provide an incentive to make a bigger budget deal of the kind that everybody knows we need to have. and so i m wondering why even though it passed with a big majority, if, you know, the president could veto legislation and if he makes it clear he is going to veto legislation elbow probably stick with it. i m suggesting that s a tool he might use occasionally. sure. i agree with that, gene, but i think in the real world, vetoing that bill would have been crazy, because everybody wanted that faa situation to dealt with and to say i m vetoing that bill to make the public, the people who travel. are you sure it s not just the members of congress who want to go home? i think he was in a position he had no choice but to sign that particular bill. i agree with the other point gene made. it s early and see how it goes the rest of the week. i m here to apologize for the president but we have to rememb