principle to a variety of claims but not to claims involving race, claiming involving categories of scute ny. that was really what was teed up in this voting rights case, an chief justice wrote an opinion for eight justices in which he said that the continued viability of the voting rights act presents important and serious constitutional challenges an consequently, we invoke the doctrine of constitutional avoidance and we're going to hold that this district that wants to get out from under the voting rights act through the bailout provision, which on its face does not apply to this district because it applies in the language of the statute only to those districts -- those jurisdictions that themselves actually register voters, and the seward district did not register voters, part of travis county, texas. travis county came on the side of those defending the voting rights act, but the court said well, because of the doctrine of constitutional rights, we will rewrierts that provision and find that this district is eligible to apply for a bailout and so we sent the case back on that and let th