question of what, if anything,, should congress do, going forward, if the court holds current section 5 unst. louis. i agree -- unconstitutional. i agree with michael that the initial instinct would be to try to fix section 5 and to find a formula that updates the statute to where there are genuine racial problems today. i tend to think that it's a mistake to go down that route for a couple of different reasons, and i have an alternative route. i would prefer to see congress go. it's a mistake because number one, the supreme court is going to -- current section 5 doesn't do nearly as much work as people think anyway. the fight here is to a large extent, is symbolic fight. there are various symbols at stake, but only .02% of the changes that the justice department has to preclear now end up not being precleared. so i don't -- i don't know whether it's worth putting a lot of energy into that route for people like me who do want to strongly protect voting rights. number one. number two, that model, and this is what abbey mentioned at the outset, comes out of a world in which the perception was