mr. shelton. professor beito, you're up. >> before i begin i've got three handouts here. i have got 10 of them. not quite enough. maybe a couple of you could share. thank you, chairman castro, for inviting me here today. it reflect as spirit of bipartisanship we found very much in alabama where we decided to pursue this unanimously, democrat, republican, black and white decided to pursue this issue. let me start by saying that i speak for myself today rather than in my capacity as chair of the alabama advisory committee. and i have little to add to ilya somin's very insightful and well-researched overview. i'm not going to revisit these issues, at least not in my talk right here. or even really talk much about conventional eminent domain or emment domain as conventionally understood. rather i want to highlight a generally overlooked threat to property rights of poor and vulnerable. for lack of a better term this threat could be called, eminent domain through the back door. now we decided to pursue

mr. shelton. i think that part of, part of the sort of parade of horribles that have occurred in the past is precisely because they occurred in the past during a very different time before the civil rights act of '64, before the voting rights act, before, actually more importantly, redistricting one person and one vote cases that helped create seats for minorities have political power at the table. i just want would like your comment on whether or not those changes in the last 10, 20, 30 years are important developments in protection against the potential for uprooting, relocation of minority or disempowered communities. >> well, it's my view that it is. one can't say that in every community that minorities have the kind of political power that they have in san francisco. but i'm sure you know from your experience in local government there that elected officials in a city would, are -- understand the difficulties of taking anybody's home and particularly doing so in a way that has an ethnic or rac

mr. shelton. i think that part of, part of the sort of parade of horribles that have occurred in the past is precisely because they occurred in the past during a very different time before the civil rights act of '64, before the voting rights act, before, actually more importantly, redistricting one person and one vote cases that helped create seats for minorities have political power at the table. i just want would like your comment on whether or not those changes in the last 10, 20, 30 years are important developments in protection against the potential for uprooting, relocation of minority or disempowered communities. >> well, it's my view that it is. one can't say that in every community that minorities have the kind of political power that they have in san francisco. but i'm sure you know from your experience in local government there that elected officials in a city would, are -- understand the difficulties of taking anybody's home and particularly doing so in a way that has an ethnic or rac