in pittsburgh, jessie allen, assistant professor at the university of pittsburgh school of law. the shias litigated voting rights cases in federal court in the past and recently wrote an op-ed for the pittsburgh post- gazette called, "look at the history of voter id: a case cited to support pennsylvania's new voter id law instead calls it into question." we welcome you both to "democracy now!" walczak in with vic philadelphia. you just argue this case before pennsylvania supreme court. explain what happened yesterday in court. >> well, it was a good argument. the justices were very well- prepared, very interested in what was going on. at this point there had been thousands of pages of legal argument filed in various briefs, but the inescapable point that is out there is that thus far since march, the state has only issued about 7000 ids to vote. and even the lowest estimate of people who don't have id and the state is 100,000. the state has repeatedly said they do not expect to issue more than a few thousand more ids. so you're looking at a huge gap in the number of people who d