The Fifth Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a Mississippi law that permanently blocks certain felons from voting unless they can get their rights restored through a process their attorney says is basically nonexistent.
Read moreA Mississippi district attorney who prosecuted a black man six times for the same crime is facing a class action lawsuit that claims he has carried out a 27-year-old pattern of racial discrimination in the jury selection process by excluding black citizens from serving as jurors.
Read moreDemocrat Mike Espy on Tuesday announced his run for the Mississippi Senate seat he sought in a tight special election last year, setting up a potential 2020 rematch with Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was dogged by controversy for a remark expressing a willingness to attend a public hanging.
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With the support of President Donald Trump, Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves was elected governor Tuesday night, defeating Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood in a race that secures the state’s status as a Republican stronghold ahead of the 2020 presidential contest.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit heard arguments Monday over a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, as the three-judge panel was asked to overturn an order striking down the law.
Read moreA federal court in Mississippi dismissed a school bus driver’s employment retaliation and due process suit against her former employer. The former driver claimed she was constructively terminated after she complained about harassment, including an incident in which a co-worker allegedly tried to run her over with a bus.
Read moreThe future of President Donald Trump’s choice for a seat on the Fifth Circuit is uncertain after multiple Republicans have spoken out against his nomination.
Read moreJackson, Mississippi, sued the Jackson Zoological Society and its directors, claiming the zoo owes it $6 million for water, and seeking an order prohibiting the zoo, from removing any personal property or animals from the zoo, in Hinds County Court.
Read moreA federal judge in Mississippi ruled that “the United States has met its burden and shown that despite the State’s episodic improvement, it operates a [mental health] system that unlawfully discriminates against persons with serious mental illness.”
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit affirmed that Mississippi gerrymandered its State Senate District 22 to deny black citizens equal rights, in violation of the Voting Rights Act, and noted that the state “scarcely entered any evidence to the contrary.”
Read moreCatholic sex abuse survivors in Mississippi and Wisconsin on Thursday demanded that federal authorities investigate allegations from three black Mississippi men who say they were molested by Franciscan friars during the mid-1990s, when they were as young as 9 years old.
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Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves will be the Republican nominee for governor in November, after soundly defeating former state Supreme Court Justice Bill Waller Jr. on Tuesday. He will face Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood.
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In a heated runoff election Tuesday, Republican voters in Mississippi will decide between a former state supreme court justice and the lieutenant governor, who has billed himself as “the one true conservative” in the race to determine who will take on Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood in November.
Read moreA Mississippi man sued the Huffington Post on Wednesday, claiming it defamed him in an article last fall that named him as a purchaser of the cocaine that led to the 1984 death of David Kennedy, a son of former Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Read moreMissouri Baptist University failed to investigate a student’s report that a football star raped her, she claims in a federal complaint.
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The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi’s heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not.
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Effects of the largest immigration raid in at least a decade are likely to ripple for years through six Mississippi small towns that host poultry plants.
Read moreU.S. immigration officials raided several Mississippi food processing plants on Wednesday, part of a large-scale operation carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration that targeted both corporations and their largely Latino employees.
Read moreA shot from a Remington rifle killed a boy and landed his older brother in prison. Arguing Remington concealed a trigger defect, their father asked a Fifth Circuit panel Wednesday to reinstate wrongful death claims against the gun maker.
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