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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...

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.

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

The Mississippi ACLU has accused state lawmakers of not being transparent when it comes to new legislative redistricting maps ...

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 ...

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.