The Crime Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Mississippi can continue to bar more than 10 percent of its citizens from voting, maintaining a Jim Crow-era provision that bars Mississippians convicted of felonies from taking part in elections, reports the Daily Journal.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

“Mississippi voting rights case is argued at US appeals court”: Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press has this report. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link. ” You can access the audio of today’s en banc oral argument of the U.S.

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JANUARY 15, 2023

“Supreme Court’s decision on felony suffrage hinges on understanding of state amendment process”: Bobby Harrison has this essay online at Mississippi Today.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

“Conservative Appeals Judges Question Felon Voting Ban Claims; Mississippi prohibits certain felons from ever voting again; En banc Fifth Circuit hears claim that ban cruel and unusual”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. Evidence that this disturbing trend is true can be found when taking a closer look at the shift in how the Court has dealt with juvenile cases dating back to 2005.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

While most Americans believe arrested people go to court soon after their arrest, Constitutional guarantees of a “fair and speedy trial” are infrequently honored in our under-resourced criminal justice system, according to a study produced by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Supreme Court. The last 15 years of decision-making has convinced a majority of the American public that political ideology more often than not has subverted the Rule of Law in the high court. That reality is evidenced by the way the Court has dealt with juvenile justice cases since 2005.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Back in January, we noted that the Supreme Court had relisted five petitions challenging the constitutionality of the controversial practice of acquitted-conduct sentencing. That brings us to Harness v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2022

A shooting at the Mississippi state fairgrounds injures at least four and scuttles a music festival. In some states, residents couldn’t previously obtain a permit to carry if they had been convicted of resisting law enforcement or had juvenile adjudications that would have been felonies had the person been an adult.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2022

The bill is modeled after a Mississippi law that is currently under consideration by the US Supreme Court. They argued that Kentucky abortion providers “are at immediate risk of committing felonies or incurring serious fines, civil liability, or revocation of their licenses if they continue to provide abortions.”

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2022

SB 612 makes abortions, or attempts at abortion, a felony. ” The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Mississippi’s more limited 15-week ban last December. That ban has led some conservatives to call for the court to overturn the precedent set by Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

After a particularly busy and newsy couple of months for the Supreme Court and its shadow — er, emergency — docket and for some individual justices and their public appearances, the focus shifts back to the regular merits docket today. Also filing into that gallery are the justices’ law clerks and a few other court employees.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The court rejected this argument. Justice Thissen’s opinion also held that the statute did not create the racially disparate impact of felony disenfranchisement.

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JURIST

AUGUST 6, 2023

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This is a huge win in the fight to restore dignity and respect to the voice of the disenfranchised voter in Mississippi.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied an injunction Thursday against a Mississippi law that created a state-run court district in the state’s capital of Jackson. The court held that the plaintiffs in the case had failed to show standing to maintain a case for a preliminary injunction.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 5, 2023

“Appeals Court Overturns Mississippi’s Lifetime Ban on Voting for Former Felons; A federal appeals court said that barring people convicted of certain felonies from voting pointlessly denied them access to ‘the democratic core of American citizenship’”: Michael Wines of The New York Times has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2025

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution generally permits states to strip people convicted of felonies of their right to vote. Felony disenfranchisement has a long, and often racist, history.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The bill comes amidst the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Mississippi’s abortion law, which has the potential to drastically transform abortion rights in the US. An Arizona Senate committee Thursday voted in favor of a bill that prohibits abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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