Justices Skeptical Amid Arguments Against Abortion Drug Mifepristone
The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to mifepristone, a medication used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S.
The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to mifepristone, a medication used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider a case tied to an attorney’s suicide after the 2014 U.S. Senate race between Chris McDaniel and Thad Cochran.
Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban on people with certain felony convictions faced another test in front of 19 federal appeals court judges.
Preventable diseases like measles may soon rise among young Mississippians after a federal judge forced the State to allow religious exemptions for required vaccinations for children starting school, State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney is warning.
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.
Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes, a relic of the State’s 1890 Jim Crow laws, violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Friday morning.
A federal appeals court should block access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, including in states where it remains legal, Mississippi’s attorney general and four state Republican members of Congress told a three-judge panel in briefs filed Wednesday.
“Petitioners’ claim fails because the State’s 1950 and 1968 enactments purged any taint from the 1890 law,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s Jan. 3, 2023, brief-in-opposition said.
The Mississippi Center for Justice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Jim Crow voting law that Mississippi’s white-supremacist leaders adopted in 1890 in an attempt to disenfranchise Black residents for life.
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