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Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting bar for people convicted of some crimes
over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Mississippi’s list of disqualifying crimes was “adopted for an illicit discriminatory purpose ...
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Mississippi’s permanent felony voting ban returns to the court
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
Supreme Court Rejects, for Now, Trump’s Bid to Fire Government Watchdog
The court’s order indicated that it may return to the issue as soon as next week, when a trial judge’s temporary restraining ...
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US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Mississippi lifetime ban on voting by felons
"Mississippi stands as an outlier among ... prompting a dissent by liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who wrote that the remaining crimes from the provision's "pernicious origin still work ...