Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under Mississippi’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017, and about 59% of them were Black, according to an expert who analyzed data for plaintiffs ...
John Cook moved back to Mississippi in 2022 after about 15 years of living in the Atlanta area, where he ran his own telecom business maintaining fiber optic lines. Hurricane Katrina had driven ...
Who Can and Can’t Vote in Mississippi: A Guide to the State’s Lifetime Voting Ban This guide offers details about the ... white supremacists used felony disenfranchisement to suppress the Black vote.
A recent poll from House Speaker Jason White (R-Miss.) indicated that 68% of Mississippians surveyed support restoring ...
And in neighboring Mississippi, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last year overturned a state law that imposes a lifetime voting ban for a range of felony convictions, ...
(AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit that challenges Mississippi’s practice ... His supporters put “I’m Voting for the Felon” on T-shirts, hats and lawn signs.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former sheriff in Mississippi’s largest county was convicted Friday on federal charges of soliciting bribes and providing ammunition to a convicted felon. Marshand Crisler was ...
October 28, 2024 • A list of felony crimes can keep Mississippians who have committed a crime and served their time from voting ... Plus, burn bans are in effect in 16 counties.
Two Nebraskans with felony records ... a federal appeals court rejected a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of certain felonies, saying the policy was not ...
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis Senior Pastor urges Memphians to register to vote for the Nov. 5 election ...
In most U.S. states, Cook would have been able to vote as he did in Georgia, despite his prior conviction. Mississippi is among 11 states that ban at least some people with felony convictions from ...