Mississippi Case Challenges Lifetime Felon Voting Ban Civil rights groups contend that Mississippi's process to reinstate voting rights for convicted felons is discriminatory, and rooted in the ...

Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of a range of felonies is cruel and unusual punishment that violates the Eighth Amendment and “is at odds with society’s evolving ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during the Jim Crow ...

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, had ...

Mississippi is one of only two states that ban first time felony offenders from voting for life. More about voting rights legislation Voting bill, which would have helped non-violent felons, dies ...