The Crime Report
JANUARY 18, 2022
The burden of the chronic “Initial Appearance Crisis” falls disproportionately on Black people, who are far more likely to be detained before trial than white people because they lack money for bail or for legal counsel. People who are in jail cannot work or meet their family obligations,” the authors write.
JURIST
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The first case the justices heard was Mississippi v. Tennessee , an original case in which Mississippi claims that Tennessee is, through an unnatural amount of well-pumping on its side of the border, stealing groundwater from the Mississippi side of the border. Wooden’s ten burglaries would be a single “occasion.”
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The Crime Report
MAY 9, 2022
A shooting at the Mississippi state fairgrounds injures at least four and scuttles a music festival. In some states, residents couldn’t previously obtain a permit to carry if they had been convicted of resisting law enforcement or had juvenile adjudications that would have been felonies had the person been an adult.
JURIST
AUGUST 6, 2023
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This is a huge win in the fight to restore dignity and respect to the voice of the disenfranchised voter in Mississippi.”
JURIST
JANUARY 5, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied an injunction Thursday against a Mississippi law that created a state-run court district in the state’s capital of Jackson. The NAACP originally appealed to the Fifth Circuit on behalf of several Jackson, Mississippi residents after losing a district court case only a few days ago.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2021
The first case is Mississippi v. While the seriatim round was widely viewed as a way to keep Justice Clarence Thomas engaged as he was during telephone arguments, it is Thomas who asks the first question of John Coghlan, the deputy solicitor general of Mississippi. Thomas says. He asks four follow-up questions.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
The bill comes amidst the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Mississippi’s abortion law, which has the potential to drastically transform abortion rights in the US. will always have the means to travel abroad to places where abortion is safe and legal.”
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