MFP Contributor
The Mississippi Legislature’s attempt to create four unelected special circuit court judges in Hinds County is unconstitutional, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled today, while upholding House Bill 1020’s creation of a single inferior court in Jackson’s Capitol Complex Improvement District. Justices heard arguments in the case in July.
Mississippi does not discriminate against people with mental illness by failing to provide community care and over-relying on institutionalization, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said in a ruling on Wednesday.
Mississippians will be able to begin casting absentee ballots in person for this year’s statewide, regional and legislative offices beginning Monday, Sept. 25.
Laws banning abortions after six-weeks of pregnancy like Mississippi’s so-called fetal “heartbeat” law are “a terrible mistake,” former President Donald Trump said over the weekend.
The Mississippi Free Press asked a court on Monday to hold that Mississippi House Republican Caucus meetings must be open to the public under the Open Meetings Act. Last year, the full Mississippi Ethics Commission rejected the Mississippi Free Press’ argument and declared that the Legislature is not a “public body” under the law.
It’s been hard not to notice the rise in COVID-19 cases lately. And while few are expressing the alarm of past waves, some politicians on
Mississippi House Rep. Nick Bain, the Republican who authored Mississippi’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors this year, has conceded after gun store owner Brad Mattox defeated him in the Republican primary for House District 2 in Alcorn County by just 26 votes.
Kelvin Franklin, a 33-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant from Sunflower County, Miss., is alleging in a federal lawsuit that he was handcuffed when an Indianola Police officer pointed a gun at him, tased him repeatedly and choked him in December 2022.
An openly gay lawmaker will join the ranks of the Mississippi Legislature for the first time in history next January after Fabian Nelson won a Democratic primary runoff for House District 66 in southwest Jackson on Tuesday night.
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