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What to expect in Mississippi’s judicial runoff elections
The courts are officially nonpartisan, but partisan fault lines have formed nonetheless in the Supreme Court race.
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Trial starts in case that seeks more Black justices on Mississippi’s highest court
‘The reason for this persistent underrepresentation is that Mississippi employs Supreme Court district boundaries that dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians in Supreme Court elections.’
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Mississippi’s top court to hear arguments over spending public money on private schools
The lawsuit cited a section of the Mississippi Constitution that prohibits the use of public money for any school that is not “a free school.”
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Brett Favre will testify under oath in Mississippi welfare scandal civil case
Mississippi has ranked among the poorest states in the U.S. for decades, but only a fraction of its federal welfare money has been going toward direct aid to families.
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Mississippi high court blocks appointment of some judges in majority-Black capital city and county
A plaintiff said state leaders should work with the city of Jackson rather than attempt a ‘hostile takeover’ of citizens’ rights.
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Mississippi Supreme Court won’t remove Brett Favre from lawsuit over misspent welfare money
Millions of federal welfare dollars for low-income Mississippi residents were squandered on projects supported by wealthy or well-connected people from 2016 to 2019, prosecutors say.
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Mississippi high court will hear case about appointing judges in majority-Black capital city
Opponents of the new law say the majority-White and Republican-controlled Legislature is usurping local autonomy in Jackson and Hinds County.
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Federal judge extends temporary halt on appointed judges in Mississippi capital
Officials pushing the new law said during the Legislative Session that they were trying to curb crime.
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Mississippi pushes more state policing in mostly Black city
Democratic Sen. Barbara Blackmon of Canton, who is Black, compared the proposal to laws that racist white people enacted to suppress Black people after Reconstruction.
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Mississippi House OKs court with unelected judges in Jackson
The appointed judges would not be required to live in Jackson or Hinds County.