The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Mississippi to continue banning certain felony offenders from voting.

Felony disenfranchisement has a long, and often racist, history. Section 241 of Mississippi’s constitution is no exception. The provision, which permanently bars anyone convicted of a listed felony ...

Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court declines to review Mississippi voting ban for convicted felons Mississippi is one of eleven states that doesn't automatically restore voting rights after convicted ...

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 ...

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of certain felonies, saying the policy was not a cruel and unusual punishment.

Some Mississippi felons remain disenfranchised unless new state legislation changes it, a circuit court ruled Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies.

A majority of the 19 judges on the appeals court, which oversees cases in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, upheld Mississippi's permanent voting ban for individuals with felony convictions ...