Editor’s Note | Sunshine Week Warning: Government Secrecy Leads to Mississippi Brain Drain
We hear so much hand-wringing about brain drain in Mississippi, but what we don’t talk about nearly enough is government secrecy.
We hear so much hand-wringing about brain drain in Mississippi, but what we don’t talk about nearly enough is government secrecy.
The Mississippi Supreme Court heard oral arguments over whether public COVID-19 relief funds can go to private schools.
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.
“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.
A conservative litigation group filed a lawsuit this week to overturn Pro-Choice Mississippi v. Fordice, with the goal of ending what may be a legal loophole protecting abortion rights in Mississippi.
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.
Now that Mississippi’s only abortion clinic has shut its doors permanently, an advocacy group is erecting billboards on highways around the capital city region to inform residents of the availability of telemedicine-prescribed abortion pills from doctors outside Mississippi.
Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, filed a petition asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to allow it to resume providing abortions. The clinic closed today as the state’s Roe v. Wade trigger law, which bans nearly all abortions, took effect.
Wednesday will be the last day the Jackson Women’s Health Organization can provide abortions after a state court declined to block a near-total abortion ban from going into effect in two days.
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