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MS advocates fight on after Supreme Court upholds voting ban
Mississippi voting rights advocates said their fight is not over, even after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case ...
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Fifth Circuit urged to restore Mississippi age verification law for social media platforms
Defending a law that requires social media companies to verify users’ age and obtain parental consent for minors, Mississippi ...
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House unanimously passes paid parental leave for state employees
State employees would get eight weeks of paid maternity leave under a bill that passed the House unanimously Thursday.
This week in politics: Parchman Farm bill dies in committee
A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...
It Was the Hottest Idea in Environmentalism. Trump Has Suspended Everyone Involved.
The Trump administration is also trying to freeze or claw back about $3 billion in grants created in the name of ...
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Ohio AG leads brief defending religious charity from government interference
19 state attorneys general, led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, are opposing a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision that lets ...
Mississippi House advances bill that would ban DEI in public schools
Mississippi House Republicans advanced a bill that would shutter DEI programs in all of the state’s public schools, ban ...
Mississippi ballot initiative restoration advances in House, again. What the bill would do
The state House of Representatives is slated to consider giving the public the right to seek ballot initiatives except on ...
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Mobile sports betting legalization passes Mississippi House
The state House approved legislation Thursday for the second year in a row to legalize mobile sports betting, a move that ...
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Mississippi ballot initiative restoration advances in House, again. What the bill would do
The state had dropped to four congressional districts in 2001. In May 2021, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in Hawkins-Butler’s favor, putting the state's marijuana ambitions in a temporary ...
Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban 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 ...
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Pride puppies and a charter school: a look at the blockbuster religion cases at the Supreme Court
That’s part of a recent trend on a Supreme Court that is dominated by conservatives. Ravitch said the court has taken up more religious rights cases in recent years than it heard in the previous ...