# The Most Consequential Supreme Court Term in a Generation | Expert Panel

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Podcast: [Defending Democracy with Marc Elias](https://stenobird.com/podcast/defending-democracy-with-marc-elias-5919693)
Published: 2026-07-16T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/democracydocket/episodes/The-Most-Consequential-Supreme-Court-Term-in-a-Generation--Expert-Panel-e3m52r4
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The Supreme Court just closed out its most consequential term in a generation — gutting the Voting Rights Act, ending 90 years of independent agency precedent and testing the limits of presidential power. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias hosted a panel of legal experts to break down the key decisions shaping democracy: Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who argued Louisiana v. Callais before the Supreme Court; Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama; and Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, who was lead attorney in the lower courts on Trump v. Barbara and part of the team that defended it before the Supreme Court.

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