Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court declines to review Mississippi voting ban for convicted felons
Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among the harshest because the state bans voting by first-time ...
Supreme Court won’t weigh Mississippi’s voting ban for felons
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not consider whether a Mississippi law banning people convicted of certain felonies ...
US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Mississippi lifetime ban on voting by felons
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...
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Supreme Court declines to review Mississippi's felon voting ban
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for felons, known as Section 241.
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Mississippi’s permanent felony voting ban returns to the court
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
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‘Harsh sanction is warranted’: Supreme Court removes Carlos Moore from bench
On Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court barred attorney Carlos Moore from serving as a judge and fined him $3,000 for what it called “willful misconduct that was prejudicial to the administration ...
Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting bar for people convicted of some crimes
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted ...