It would make little sense, the 5th Circuit concluded, for the 14th Amendment to permit felony disenfranchisement only for the Eighth Amendment to prohibit it. But in any event, the court of appeals ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court declined Monday to decide whether a permanent voting ban on people ... convicted felons finish their sentences. Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s ...

upheld Mississippi's permanent voting ban for individuals with felony convictions outlined in the Mississippi's Constitution. The State's Constitution was adopted on November 1,1890, marking the ...

If the plaintiffs wanted to eliminate Mississippi's ban, they needed to instead ... that still permanently disenfranchise felons for offenses other than election-related ones.

It’s the second time in recent years the high court has been asked to overturn the state’s voting ban for ... convicted in a ...

Those three judges said Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban is cruel and unusual punishment ... such as writing a bad check, felony shoplifting and possession of counterfeit currency. This decision by ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under Mississippi’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017, and about 59% of them were Black, according to an expert who analyzed data for plaintiffs ...