smoking gun of racial animus. precedence does exist to move forward. that s a very important point. it s a critically important point. precedence matters. my point, if we telescope out and take a broader frame, at the end of the day we have got to reform our laws so that we re not because right now the attack is on all evidentiary standards and any race case. not just this one. the right is taking on what we call disparate impact which is whether or not we can look at the impacts of our decision-making on a whole group of people. and, in fact, the voting rights action, section 5, section 4 was essentially i mean, not on the same legal logic but the historic understanding of, because racial bias, because it no longer announces itself facially as racial bias has left the playing field. we re trying to out it to make sure let me say this and go to you, melissa. i also think it s really
smoking gun of racial animus. precedence does exist to move forward. that s a very important point. it s a critically important point. precedence matters. my point, if we telescope out and take a broader frame, at the end of the day we have got to reform our laws so that we re not because right now the attack is on all evidentiary standards and any race case. not just this one. the right is taking on what we call disparate impact which is whether or not we can look at the impacts of our decision-making on a whole group of people. and, in fact, the voting rights action, section 5, section 4 was essentially i mean, not on the same legal logic but the historic understanding of, because racial bias, because it no longer announces itself facially as racial bias has left the playing field. we re trying to out it to make sure let me say this and go to you, melissa. i also think it s really important to distinguish that between this, a judgment that george zimmerman has a human
precedence does exist to move forward. that s a very important point. it s a critically important point. precedence matters. my point, if we telescope out and take a broader frame, at the end of the day we have got to reform our laws so that we re not because right now the attack is on all evidentiary standards and any race case. not just this one. the right is taking on what we call disparate impact which is whether or not we can look at the impacts of our decision-making on a whole group of people. and, in fact, the voting rights action, section 5, section 4 was essentially i mean, not on the same legal logic but the historic understanding of, because racial bias, because it no longer announces itself facially as racial bias has left the playing field. we re trying to out it to make sure let me say this and go to you, melissa. i also think it s really important to distinguish that