The 5th Circuit is one of the most conservative appeals courts in the U.S., and in 2022 it declined to overturn Mississippi's felony disenfranchisement provisions — a ruling that came in a ...

The public has a right to details about a legal dispute between two companies that ran a private venture to ticket uninsured ...

Voting Rights. Federal Appeals Court Upholds Mississippi's Jim Crow–Era Felon Voting Ban "In short, 'cruel and unusual' is not the same as 'harmful and unfair,'" the court wrote.

Trump-appointed appeals court judges say Mississippi is violating federal law with mail ballot deadline but don’t block it Story by Tierney Sneed, CNN • 3d ...

Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for people with disqualifying felony convictions has been struck down in a new decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.. The court ...

Voters fill out their ballots at the U.S. Air Force MEPS Liaison building on November 07, 2023 in Jackson, Mississippi. A U.S. appeals court has sided with the Republican plaintiffs in ruling ...

Opinion: Former federal appeals court judges Andre M. Davis and Paul R. Michel say that without the universal injunction tool ...

And now the RNC has appealed the Mississippi case to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is known as perhaps the most conservative appeals court in the United States. Zunk told NPR that ...

In April, the Mississippi Supreme Court changed the rules for state courts to require that poor criminal defendants have a lawyer throughout the sometimes lengthy period between arrest and indictment.

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court hears arguments Tuesday on the constitutionality of Mississippi laws that permanently bar certain felons from voting unless they can get their rights ...

In hearings this morning, the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans is reviewing that decision. The Mississippi Legislature passed and Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the law in March.

Judge who threw out a ban on abortions after 15 weeks to hear challenge to a more restrictive law as a growing number of states move ahead with laws that challenge Roe v. Wade ...