If House Bill 1020 is passed into law, the white chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court would designate two judges to preside over a new district that would encompass all of Jackson’s majority-white neighborhoods.
Mississippi’s mostly white legislature has voted to implement a separate, appointed court system and expanded police force in its capital city, which has the highest percentage of Black residents of any major American hub.
Even though the capital, Jackson, has an 80 percent Black population, white Republicans dominate the state’s Legislature, which they have completely redesigned over the past 30 years to pass any law without needing any Democratic votes, according to today!
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