Ali Shamsiddeen requested that a judge be appointed to preside over a petition appealing the decision to take him off the Municipal Primary Election ballot. The petition claims the City of Jackson ...

Ali M. ShamsidDeen is suing the Jackson Democratic Executive Committee after he was disqualified from running in the upcoming elections.

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court declined Monday to decide whether a permanent voting ban on people convicted of felonies in Mississippi is cruel and unusual punishment. The court, in 2023 ...

Lawmakers have been unable to agree on restoring the ballot initiative after the state Supreme Court in 2021 ruled it was ...

Legislators in Ohio and Mississippi want to fine men up to around $10,000 if they’re caught doing so. A draft bill was released in Ohio this week, seeking to make ejaculation without the intent of ...

Proponents of spending public funds on private schools are not proponents of letting the people vote on the issue. Their fear ...

Mississippi voting rights advocates said their fight is not over, even after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case ...

About 38% of Mississippi residents are Black. Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under the state’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017. More than 29,000 of them have completed their ...

Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Randolph appointed three judges to serve the new CCID court, which is set to be ...

A significant figure in the Civil Rights movement and a historic federal judge, Constance Baker Motley remains largely ...

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

Defending a law that requires social media companies to verify users’ age and obtain parental consent for minors, Mississippi ...