The Mississippi lawsuits are part of a broader national movement to rethink felon voting bans. KHALILAH BROWN-DEAN: I think we are finally reconciling those historical misdeeds with our ...

Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of a range of felonies is cruel and unusual punishment that violates the Eighth Amendment and “is at odds with society’s evolving ...

Mississippi is one of only two states that ban first time felony offenders from voting for life. More about voting rights legislation Voting bill, which would have helped non-violent felons, dies ...

Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for people with disqualifying felony convictions has been struck down in a new decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.. The court ...

July 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of certain felonies, saying the policy was not a cruel and unusual punishment.

A majority of the 19 judges on the appeals court, which oversees cases in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, upheld Mississippi's permanent voting ban for individuals with felony convictions ...

About 38% of Mississippi residents are Black. Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under the state’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held, opens new tab 2-1 that a provision in the Mississippi state constitution that requires a lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of certain crimes ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state’s practice of stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including ...

Voting Rights. Federal Appeals Court Upholds Mississippi's Jim Crow–Era Felon Voting Ban "In short, 'cruel and unusual' is not the same as 'harmful and unfair,'" the court wrote.

Learn more about felony disenfranchisement from The Marshall Project - Jackson. Who Can and Can’t Vote in Mississippi: A Guide to the State’s Lifetime Voting Ban; How Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still ...

A Mississippi appeals court overturned a Jim Crow law imposing a lifetime voting ban on people convicted of certain crimes. A 2-1 decision Friday ruled that disenfranchising an individual who has p… ...