The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not consider whether a Mississippi law banning people convicted of certain felonies from voting should be overturned. The Jim Crow-era practice extends to ...

Mississippi is one of eleven states that doesn't automatically restore voting rights after convicted felons finish their sentences. Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among ...

The Mississippi Senate Elections Committee moved up several bills on campaign finance early voting by Tuesday.

MISSISSIPPI, (WCBI) – The U.S. Supreme Court is taking zero action on Mississippi’s voting laws. A group of people who completed their criminal sentences filed a lawsuit seeking the right to vote ...

Mississippi has one of the harshest disenfranchisement systems in the nation and a convoluted way for restoring voting rights to people.

A convicted felon's voting rights can be restored in Mississippi only by a two-thirds vote of the state legislature - something that happened just 18 times between 2013 and 2018, according to the ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

Mississippi is one of eleven states that doesn't automatically restore voting rights after convicted felons finish their sentences. Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among the ...

FILE - The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from ...

To regain voting rights in Mississippi, a person convicted of a disenfranchising crime must receive a governor’s pardon or win permission from two-thirds of the state House and Senate.