we are here to hear the arguments verses farrakhan versesgregoire. you may proceed. >> good afternoon. i and with the legal defense fund and counsel for the pellets in this action took out like to reserve five minutes for rebuttal. this is a very rel. fell one disfranchising- disenfranchisement case. plaintiffs had established substantial evidence that the racial disparity in nearly every phase of washington's justice system cannot be described as a nondiscriminatory. the defendants have failed to offer any evidence to contest the plaintiffs record which the district court recognized as compliant -- compelling evidence. forced a -- the district court recognizes that the disenfranchisement law will shift in equality to the political process. this is the essence of the section 2 vote denial claim. the fact that it is external to voting interacts with the voting qualification and denying the right to vote to plaintiffs on account of their race. this is not a case of disenfranchisement law. the plaintiffs argue that disparity alone establishes an act und