'Mississippi stands as an outlier among its sister states, bucking a clear national trend in our nation against permanent disenfranchisement,' says the majority of a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, striking down the state's law.
"Mississippi stands as an outlier among its sister states, bucking a clear national trend in our nation against permanent disenfranchisement."A U.S. federal appellate court on Friday ruled that a Jim Crow-era Mississippi law permanently disenfranchising people with certain felony convictions is unconstitutional.that can be appealed to the full U.S.
"In the last 50 years, a national consensus has emerged among the state legislatures against permanently disenfranchising those who have satisfied their judicially imposed sentences and thus repaid their debts to society," Friday's ruling states."Mississippi stands as an outlier among its sister states, bucking a clear national trend in our nation against permanent disenfranchisement.
"In school, they teach our kids that everybody's vote counts, but no matter how I've lived for the past 20 years, I don't count, not my values or my experience," Hopkinswhen the suit was filed."I have paid Mississippi what I owe it in full, but I still can't cast my vote for my children's future." Section 241"mandates permanent, lifetime disenfranchisement of a person convicted of a crime of any one of 'murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement, or bigamy,'" according to the ruling.
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