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Today, the entire 5th Circuit reheard a case challenging the Mississippi Constitution’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions.
Last Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit unanimously greenlit the creation of an unelected court in Mississippi’s capital of Jackson.
Last week, Republican attorneys general from Alabama and 12 other states submitted an amicus brief further escalating Republicans’ ongoing attack on the Voting Rights Act.
An amicus brief submitted by Republican attorneys general from Texas and Mississippi reveals a cynical new scheme to nullify pro-voting decisions in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
At least nine polling locations in the most populous county in Mississippi — Hinds County — ran out of ballots multiple times throughout Election Day yesterday.
Yesterday, in anticipation of Election Day, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its plans to monitor voting activities in four states and address accessibility violations in Texas.
A series of recent audits and investigations across three states have revealed close to a thousand polling places that are non-compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or are otherwise inaccessible to voters with disabilities.
On Thursday, Sept. 21, the Mississippi Supreme Court struck down a portion of House Bill 1020, a recently enacted Mississippi law that targets Jackson’s majority-Black population.
On Friday, Aug. 4, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Jim Crow era provision of the Mississippi Constitution that permanently disenfranchised Mississippians with certain felony convictions.
On Tuesday, July 25, a federal judge temporarily blocked Senate Bill 2358, a recently enacted Mississippi law that limits who can assist voters with disabilities in returning their completed mail-in ballots.