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Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant speaks to guests
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Ex-Gov. Phil Bryant Now Targeting Reporter in Defamation Lawsuit Over Welfare Scandal Reporting

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter could become the latest defendant in former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s ongoing lawsuit against online news publication Mississippi Today. The former governor’s legal team is seeking to add reporter Anna Wolfe, whose “Backchannel” series earned the publication a coveted local-reporting Pulitzer Prize last May, as a defendant over a story she reported late last year.

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photo shows Tate Reeves and Elee Reeves walking through the garden of the governor's mansion, a white wall behind them
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Fact Check: Touring Tate Reeves’ $3.3 Million Governor’s Mansion Renovations

The first thing you see when starting a tour of the historic and regal Mississippi Governor’s Mansion is a lot of pink. Pink walls, rugs infused with salmon splashes, and antique magenta and gold chairs. A delicate pink chandelier glows overhead in the formal Front Rose Parlor in the oldest part of the mansion in downtown Jackson. Each room’s nickname in the older part of the mansion is its color.

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a close up photo of Cliff Johnson
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Mississippi Says Poor Defendants Must Always Have a Lawyer. Few Courts Are Ready to Deliver.

In April, the Mississippi Supreme Court changed the rules for state courts to require that poor criminal defendants have a lawyer throughout the sometimes lengthy period between arrest and indictment. The goal is to eliminate a gap during which no one is working on a defendant’s behalf. That mandate went into effect Saturday. But few of the state’s courts have plans in place to change their procedures in a way that is likely to accomplish what the justices intended.

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