WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court declined Monday to decide whether a permanent voting ban on people convicted of felonies in Mississippi ... The majority also said felon disenfranchisement ...

Dennis, all stating a lifetime voting ban is unconstitutional ... you are a nobody,' felon tells Mississippi lawmakers "Go and convince the State legislatures," Judge Edith Jones wrote.

Last August, a panel of 5th Circuit judges blocked Mississippi's felon disenfranchisement law in a 2–1 ruling, finding that the state's lifetime voting ban for those convicted of certain crimes ...

XII, Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution categorically unconstitutional … would thwart the ability of the State’s legislature and citizens to determine their voting qualifications ...

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 ...

Supreme Court Leaves in Place Mississippi’s Voting Ban for People Convicted of Some ... lawyers failed to get the Supreme Court to take up the felon disenfranchisement issue in 2023, over ...

Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for convicted felons was officially ... Donald Trump, the GOP’s nominee for president, is a convicted felon. In May, he became the first former American ...

Using different legal arguments, lawyers failed to get the Supreme Court to take up the felon disenfranchisement ... challenging the voting ban. To regain voting rights in Mississippi, a person ...