Opinion | Hooray for the Legal System Fighting to Protect Democracy
David. H. Moskowitz praises our legal system and its key players who are fighting to protect democracy after Donald Trump’s recurring words and actions.
David. H. Moskowitz praises our legal system and its key players who are fighting to protect democracy after Donald Trump’s recurring words and actions.
“The Supreme Court has sidestepped the question of whether Trump’s actions disqualify him from office and declared instead that Congress must make that determination, under the various constitutional restrictions that continue to exist about who is allowed to serve as president,” Robert A. Strong writes.
Several bills that could have grown democracy in Mississippi died as the state House and Senate killed each other’s proposals.
“Here are four things Trump tried to do to flip the election in his favor—and examples of how both individuals and democratic institutions stopped him,” Richard L. Abel writes.
Mississippi legislators are unlikely to restore a ballot initiative process this year after a Senate proposal died on Monday.
All registered Mississippi voters could be able to cast a ballot up to 15 days before an election under an early-voting bill the House passed.
We hear so much hand-wringing about brain drain in Mississippi, but what we don’t talk about nearly enough is government secrecy.
Mississippians need and deserve more election information before they go to the polls. That’s what I heard repeatedly from Gulf Coast residents on March 5 when I joined Mississippi Free Press team members and locals for our first-ever Biloxi Solutions Circles event.
Publisher Kimberly Griffin explains why supporting media that reports blurs a false division line between local and nation issues is critical to defending and protecting democracy.
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