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January 28, 2025

Supreme Court Rejects Mississippi Voting Law Case

Liberals are going to be upset with the Supreme Court this week after a voting law case was refused.

The case originated in Mississippi, calling for the suspension of voting rights for individuals who had been convicted of certain felonies.

The law was being challenged on the basis that it is “cruel and unusual punishment.”

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A case similar to this has come before the Court before, having the same fate.

Prior to this attempt to have the rule overturned, a group brought a case before the Supreme Court in 2023 using a different legal argument.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs said this is a “harsh and unforgiving” practice.

The attorneys argued, “A citizen convicted in a Mississippi state court of a disenfranchising felony permanently loses the right to vote in the state, no matter how minor the underlying crime or how long the citizen may live after sentence completion.”

The law was initially codified in 1890, with challengers to the law arguing that since 58% of those having been convicted of crimes (1994-2017) would block their ability to vote, the law was disenfranchising black voters on purpose.

In the 2023 case, they argued that the state Constitution was written with racist intent because of that provision.

In this appeal, the law was originally overturned by a 3-judge panel, but that decision was appealed and forced to go before the full panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which overturned the panel’s ruling.

This has been a very touchy subject for some time, as there is a growing movement that once you have served your time, even felonies, your right to vote should be restored.

There are still several states that continue to suspend voting rights altogether as well as states that restore voting rights after a specific amount of time has passed once the sentence has been completed.

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