to the historical commitment on part of republicans to pass voting rights. i think we need to add a bit of historical nuance. even those trump thurman supported the voting rights, and even though ronald reagan supported it, ronald reagan in 1981, supported voting rights act with the stipulation that he wanted to eat some of the requirements. reagan, although he signed embraced the voting rights act, he foreshadowed the shelby decision. opening the door for where we are now. i want to be more nuanced and how we think about previous republican support for the voting rights act, in some days when we see now, the foundation has been late for the crisis that we have in terms of policies that republicans have embraced over the last decade. professor cobb, you wrote in the new yorker, martin luther king junior spoke of the