The appeals court said that previous decision means those opposed to Mississippi’s ban must “do the hard work of persuading your fellow citizens that the law should change.” The majority also said ...

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 era ...

Another analyst said the difference hasn’t been missed by either prosecutors ... court session (ending June 2024), the Court of Appeals heard 103 cases. For that stretch and up through December ...