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Here is a summary of what we were able to accomplish and what challenges we still face after the 2022 legislative session.

Meet Summer Advocacy Legal Fellow Ayanna Hill

New crimes and harsher penalties waste taxpayer dollars without any contribution to public safety.

This isn’t a “they’re coming for us next” moment. They’ve already come for us, and the fight of our lives is here.

Essentially, Alito says that since there was not a common law right to abortion before the drafting of the Constitution, and there is not one word-for-word laid out in the Constitution, women do not have a Constitutional right to reproductive choice.

Black lawyers and civic leaders in Mississippi are demanding full and fair representation on the Mississippi Supreme Court.

What you need to know about the new string of classroom censorship and book ban attacks impacting students and teachers across the country.

Biden has made progress implementing his executive order to promoting voting access, but more work is needed.

The Mississippi Legislature is currently engaged in redistricting, once-a-decade work to redraw state legislative and congressional maps. Redistricting can be done fairly, so that all voters can have their voices heard equally and given a chance to elect representatives of their choice. It can also be done to dilute the voice of certain groups while amplifying the political power of others. For example, in 2018 in Ohio, Republicans won 53% of the statewide vote but managed to win 12 out of 16 congressional seats. This unfair result was achieved through gerrymandering, the practice of engaging in redistricting in an unfair, partisan manner, which allows elected officials to choose their voters. Democrats in Maryland, and politicians in other states across the country, have engaged in similar unfair gerrymandering.