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A federal court yesterday ruled that remedial state Senate maps passed by the Legislature earlier this year still do not remedy unlawful vote dilution in the DeSoto County area. New maps for the area will now be ordered into place by the court in advance of special elections set for November 2025.
ACLU of MS Calls on Governor Reeves to veto HB 1197, the Safe Solicitation Act.
On July 2, 2024, a panel of 3 Federal judges unanimously held that Mississippi’s Senate map violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of Black voters in the DeSoto County and Hattiesburg areas. Today, the Mississippi Senate released a map proposal, in response to the federal
The ACLU of MS has joined the ACLU, affiliates in Texas and Louisiana, and IDRA to file a friend-of-the-court brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in support of Darryl George, who was suspended from Barbers Hill ISD in Mont Belvieu, Texas, for wearing his hair in long locs.
Today, the Mississippi House of Representatives, with very little notice, and without public viewing or input, passed new legislative maps. The process of reshaping legislative districts—something affecting the democratic voice of every Mississippian—should be open and transparent.
HB 1197 unlawfully infringes on the constitutional right to freedom of speech and threatens to penalize indigent people for their poverty.