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Court says Mississippi can’t count late ballots but the ruling doesn’t affect Nov. 5 vote
UCLA law professor Richard Hasen wrote on his election law blog that the appeals court ruling was a ‘bonkers opinion.’
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over old abortion rights ruling in Mississippi
A Mississippi judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that challenged a potential conflict between a 2022 state law that bans most abortions and a 1998 state Supreme Court ruling that said abortion is guaranteed in the Mississippi Constitution because of the right of privacy. Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin wrote that the American Association of Pro-Life…
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Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, is Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate.
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Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
Richard Gerald Jordan is convicted of taking Edwina Marter to a forest and shooting her to death, then calling her husband saying she was safe and demanding $25,000.
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Brett Favre tries to expand his defamation lawsuit against Mississippi auditor over welfare spending
‘Favre’s frivolous lawsuit has cost my family and me tens of thousands of dollars personally, but I will not back down from telling the truth.’
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Mississippi won’t prosecute a deputy who killed a man yelling ‘shoot me’
‘The grand jury reported that it found no criminal conduct on behalf of the officer involved.’
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Federal judge halts Mississippi law requiring age verification for websites
The suit challenging the law was filed by NetChoice, whose members include Google, which owns YouTube; Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat; and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
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Mississippi is the latest state sued by tech group over age verification on websites
‘The broad, subjective, and vague categories of speech that the Act requires websites to monitor and censor could reach everything from classic literature, such as ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘The Bell Jar,’ to modern media like pop songs by Taylor Swift.’
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6 former Mississippi law officers sentenced in state court for torture of 2 Black men
Time served for the state convictions will run concurrently, or at the same time, as the federal sentences, and the men will serve their time in federal penitentiaries.
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Federal appeals court temporarily delays new state-run court in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital
‘We will continue to do everything in our power to fight for Jackson residents’ rights to have control over their own institutions and live free from state-driven discrimination.’