The Legal Defense fund held a virtual panel on voting rights on March 4, 2023 at Edmundite Missions in Selma, Alabama. The panel was moderated by MSNBC anchor Joy Reid and included LDF President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson, The Leadership Conference president Maya Wiley, Allen v. Milligan plaintiffs Evan Milligan and Khadidah Stone, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell.

In a surprise 5-4 decision Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a racially gerrymandered voting map in Alabama, upholding a key plank of the Voting Rights Act that the conservative majority has spent years whittling away at. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the court's liberal justices in finding that Alabama's Republican-drawn congressional districts unlawfully disadvantage Black voters by diluting their voting power, a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act banning voting practices that discriminate based on race and color. The court ordered Alabama's Legislature to redraw the map. For more on the decision and the state of voting rights across the country, we are joined by three guests: Khadidah Stone is a named plaintiff in the case and works for the civic engagement organization Alabama Forward; Tish Gotell Faulks is legal director at the ACLU of Alabama; and Davin Rosborough is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Voting Rights Project who helped represent the plaintiffs.