This case is about the heart of the Voting Rights Act, which is Section Five. Section five serves as the checkpoint for our nation's democracy. It's important for ensuring that communities of color throughout the country are able to vote and are able to have their votes counted. And that's what's at stake in this case. The plaintiffs in the Shelby County case are arguing that America isn't a new place, and that the provisions of the Voting Rights Act here, section five of the Voting Rights Act, are no longer needed. But the truth is that as our clients so we, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, represent five African American pastors and an elected official here in the city of Calera. Their story is that section five of the Voting Rights Act provides essential protection to their voting rights. Before Congress, would show two things at the same time. Progress, yes. But continuing problems of the kind that we've seen for a long time. We saw voting discrimination in a whole bunch of places. You got to go right back to the old ways. You need this to be like a watchdog. There has never been a more effective law, civil rights law, than section five of the Voting Rights Act, because it stops discrimination before it takes root. It really changes the dynamic for elected officials and local officials who would change the rules and manipulate the rules to deprive minority voters of their right to exercise their vote. And we've seen it time and time again. To get to that vote, it's not an accident. There are those who want to rewrite history. There are those that want to declare the job done when it's half done. We still need these voting protections. Shelby County needs the Voting Rights Act. Proof of such a need is right here, and it's found among our clients. It's found in their stories. In a place where there's been recent evidence of discrimination in the political process to go along with a long and very dark history of discrimination, as we've seen in Alabama, and more specifically, here in Shelby County, that this jurisdiction would be bringing a constitutional challenge to the Voting Rights Act when its minority residents need section five among them. This place, this location, and our clients here provide one of the best examples we have of why section five and why the Voting Rights Act is still very much relevant today. The goal of this case is to take down the heart of the Voting Rights Act for the whole country. And so, yes, the people in Shelby need it. We've seen some recent examples of why they need it, but it's about all those places that have this deep history of persisting discrimination, and it's about something else. It's about keeping our promise. The union can be more perfect, and the Voting Rights Act points us on that path.