The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft.

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The U.S. Supreme Court chose not to review a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime voting ban on individuals convicted of certain felonies. Created in 1890, the ban disenfranchises people even after serving their sentences and disproportionately affects Black individuals.

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over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Mississippi’s list of disqualifying crimes was “adopted for an illicit discriminatory purpose ...

Using different legal arguments, lawyers failed to get the Supreme Court to take up the felon disenfranchisement issue in 2023, over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Mississippi’s list of ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson revealed in an interview that she relieves stress by taking boxing lessons.

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's found an outlet for the frustration that can result from being in the minority on the nation’s highest court: boxing.

The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi's Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft.

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 era that stands as one of the toughest such restrictions in the nation.

Other states with similar laws include Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi ... asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Elena Kagan raised the concerns of possible ...

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson punches out her frustrations in the boxing ring - Ketanji Brown Jackson, 54, is one of three liberals on an otherwise Conservative-dominated Supreme