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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Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court declines to review Mississippi voting ban for convicted felons
Mississippi is one of eleven states that ... pointing to a 1974 Supreme Court decision that the Constitution’s equal protection clause does not prevent states from banning felons from voting.
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US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Mississippi lifetime ban on voting by felons
A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears cases from Mississippi ... voted 13-6 to uphold the ban. The Supreme Court in 2023 declined to hear ...