A panel of federal appeals judges on Aug. 4 ruled that Mississippi’s ban on voting after conviction for crimes including forgery and bigamy is a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi should stop defending a Jim Crow-era portion of its state constitution that today!
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