The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted ...

Marbury against Madison, Mississippi against Johnson, discussed this broad immunity principle that — JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: So what was up with the pardon? What was up with the pardon ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled t ...

The U.S. Supreme Court chose not to review a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime voting ban on individuals convicted of certain felonies. Created in 1890, the ban disenfranchises people even after ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked. Justice Elena Kagan raised the concerns ... Other states with similar laws include Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, ...

Originally published by The 19th. The Michigan Advance is part of The 19th Reporting Network. During Joe Biden’s four years as president, he and Senate Democrats prioritized diversity at an ...

over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Mississippi’s list of disqualifying crimes was “adopted for an illicit discriminatory purpose ...

Using different legal arguments, lawyers failed to get the Supreme Court to take up the felon disenfranchisement issue in 2023, over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by ...