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The post Mississippi votes to remove electoral vote requirement for statewide offices appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 11:00 am by Clarence T.
Along the same lines, section 97-13-39 of the Mississippi Code Annotated makes it a crime to use the same means (intimidation, etc.) to prevent a person from voting. [read post]
28 Mar 2018, 1:14 pm by Erin McCarthy Holliday
The suit alleges the Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for certain crimes was a disenfranchisement scheme carefully created to disproportionately disenfranchise black voters, and that the law violates the Eighth Amendment [text]... [read post]
Mississippi civic leaders Monday filed a lawsuit against the Mississippi Supreme Court claiming that the state is violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the US Constitution. [read post]
10 Oct 2006, 12:20 am
[JURIST] The Mississippi American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [press release] Monday challenging a list of felony crimes which prevent convicted individuals from voting in the state. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 9:46 am by Ari Savitzky
Moreover, voting is heavily polarized on the basis of race across Mississippi. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 7:02 pm
The legislation reauthorizing the state Parole Board changes the vote needed to release inmates convicted of murder or a sexual offense. [read post]
8 Nov 2023, 8:14 am by Samuel Wilkinson
Reeves secured a slim majority of 51.8% of the votes in Mississippi and his opponent secured 46.9% with 95% of votes having been cast. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 9:48 pm by Tom Smith
One resident of a town not named for the tea-party spirit, Olive Branch, told the New York Times she suspected Cochran engaged in costly logrolling: “There’s no telling what kinds of liberal things he had to vote for to get those kinds of things for Mississippi — what kind of trading he had to do. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 8:19 pm by Reproductive Rights
Huffington Post: Mississippi 'Personhood' Amendment Vote Fails, by Emily Wagster Pettus: JACKSON, Miss. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 10:52 am by Howard Bashman
“Court: Mississippi can continue blocking felons from voting. [read post]
29 Oct 2003, 4:18 pm
Politicians are saying that a Senate vote against Charles Pickering, nominated to the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, could effect the very close gubernatorial race in Mississippi. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
The final version of the bill passed the Senate by a vote of 37-14, and the House by a vote of 79-43. [read post]