Ballot initiatives, disenfranchisement efforts stall in Mississippi House. See why
The House Constitution chairman said Thursday he was no longer going to bring up disenfranchisement or ballot initiatives on the floor.
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Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court declines to review Mississippi voting ban for convicted felons
The court, in 2023, had also rejected a different challenge to the state’s voting restriction that was based on the fact it was drafted in 1890 as part of a racist effort to disenfranchise Black ...
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US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Mississippi lifetime ban on voting by felons
"Mississippi stands as an outlier among its ... from the provision's "pernicious origin still work the very harm the 1890 convention intended - denying Black Mississippians the vote." ...
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Black Hawk Rock: Part 7
Interestingly, Black Hawk does not mention in his autobiography that he used a boulder as a rostrum in the council area as stated in local lore.
US Supreme Court backs Mississippi's ban on voting by felons
On January 27 the US Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to Mississippi lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain felonies ...
US Supreme Court declines to hear 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 a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during the Jim Crow era ...