News & Commentary

This year, Ohio is the first state to pass statewide maps and is exhibiting what unfairly apportioned electoral district boundaries look like.

Mary Grace Eppes | WAPT | September 20, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. - The U.S. Supreme Court has set oral arguments for Dec. 1 in Mississippi's abortion case challenging Roe v. Wade.

Emily Wagster Pettus | Associated Press | August 12, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s two most densely populated counties are on the far northern and southern ends of the state, according to 2020 census numbers released Thursday.

What happens when federal prison staff speak out on the dangers ravaging their facility during COVID-19? Almost nothing, it seems.

Cecil Hannibal | WAPT | July 31, 2021

Bobby Harrison|Mississippi Today|July 12, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. - The joint committee tasked with developing a plan to redraw the four U.S. House seats and the 174 state legislative seats have scheduled nine public hearings across the state to garner public input.

Immigration detention was cruel, abusive, and degrading before the pandemic hit — but as in so many other places, COVID-19 made the system's brutality impossible to ignore.

Keisha Rowe | Clarion Ledger | May 18, 2021 NATCHEZ, Miss. - A civil rights and liberties complaint has been filed against the Adams County Detention Center in Natchez after several immigrant rights groups claimed the facility is endangering the lives of detainees.

Ashton Pittman |Mississippi Free Press| May 17, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court announced this morning that it will hear a Mississippi case challenging Roe v. Wade in defense of the state’s 15-week abortion, “The Gestational Age Act.”