HowAppealing

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

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

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. And, once again, the views expressed by the dissenting justices, led by Justices Clarence Thomas and Justice Scalia, could be read as political ideology more so than the rule of law. Mississippi.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Over the next four years, the troubled child (as he was under Texas law ) repeatedly self-injured himself, including more than 50 times trying to take his own life. 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.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

For this action to be effective, the Senate would need to also vote on this bill to take the drug off Schedule I, which currently makes its possession and distribution (and the use of radio to promote it), a federal felony. Then the President would have to sign the bill.

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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. No law enforcement official I’ve spoken with thinks these policies are a good idea. His fears have been realized, he said, linking the change in law with a surge in gun thefts and more stolen guns recovered at violent crime scenes.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2023

The Mississippi Constitution denies the vote to any person “convicted of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy.” Department of Justice “precleared” Mississippi’s provision to permit it to enter effect. That brings us to Harness v.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2022

A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked a new Kentucky abortion law from being enforced by state officials. The bill is modeled after a Mississippi law that is currently under consideration by the US Supreme Court. Planned Parenthood challenged the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Also filing into that gallery are the justices’ law clerks and a few other court employees. Army, where she was head of the National Security Law division of the Office of the Judge Advocate General. The first case is Mississippi v. the court’s new marshal, Gail Curley, gives the cry of “Oyez! Thomas says.

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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 law at issue, Minn. The appellants, two convicted felons, argued that the law violates Article VII , Section 1, of the Minnesota Constitution.

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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 end-justifies-means analysis has no place in constitutional law.”

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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 bill also gives the court jurisdiction over misdemeanors, violations of city ordinances and felony preliminary matters.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In Alabama, lawmakers have refiled a previously unsuccessful felony ban on health care for trans minors. Republicans in Arizona and Kentucky have also proposed health care bans for trans youth, similar to a law passed last year in Arkansas that bans gender-affirming care for trans minors.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2025

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. Section 241 of Mississippis constitution is no exception. A federal district court in Mississippi rejected the challenge.

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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. If passed, it will join other laws across the country that have directly challenged the precedent set by the landmark case Roe v.

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