Mississippi Case Challenges Lifetime Felon Voting Ban Civil rights groups contend that Mississippi's process to reinstate voting rights for convicted felons is discriminatory, and rooted in the ...

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 ...

The court's recent ruling overturns a previous decision by a three-judge panel from the same court, which had found in August that Mississippi's voting ban for certain crimes violated the Eighth ...

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.

Voting Rights. Civil Rights Groups Urge Federal Appeals Court To Strike Down Mississippi's Jim Crow–Era Felon Voting Ban A broad coalition of civil rights groups and think tanks, including ...

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… ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for felons, known as Section 241. The provision, enacted in 1890, was originally intended to disenfranchise Black voters ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's constitution bars its citizens from voting ever again after being convicted of certain felonies. Now a legal group wants the federal courts to remove what it ...

Civil rights groups contend that Mississippi's process to reinstate voting rights for convicted felons is discriminatory, and rooted in the state's Jim Crow-era constitution.

Most states have moved in recent years to automatically restore voting rights to people who complete their prison sentences. Where that doesn't happen, civil rights groups are suing on behalf of ...