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US Supreme Court reverses ruling against Mississippi legislative redistricting

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a brief order on Monday, reversed a lower court’s ruling that determined Mississippi lawmakers unlawfully diluted Black voting strength when it redrew the state’s legislative districts. 

Monday’s order from the high court sends the case back to the lower federal court for further arguments in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Callais decision, which rolled back protections against racial discrimination in the redistricting process.

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u/MSTODAYnews — 4 days ago
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Did Mississippi corrections officials retaliate against a death row inmate for speaking up?

Lisa Jo Chamberlin decided to speak out about her treatment in prison, including the past decade as the only woman on Mississippi’s death row. 

Speaking to Mississippi Today earlier this year, she raised issues about the isolation and restriction she has experienced in closed custody, including more time locked in her cell and less time to shower or go outside.  

After a Jan. 14 Mississippi Today article about Chamberlin’s treatment compared to the men on death row, her usual contacts said they were unable to reach her until the spring. Chamberlin said she was punished for speaking out with months of more restrictions and what she describes as retaliation.

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u/MSTODAYnews — 7 days ago
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Gov. Reeves calls off Mississippi's special session on judicial redistricting

Gov. Tate Reeves on Wednesday morning said he will cancel a special legislative session set for next week to redraw Mississippi’s state Supreme Court districts, but he indicated the state will redraw its four congressional districts, at some point. 

Reeves, on SuperTalk radio, indicated that it would be difficult for the state to redraw the congressional districts in time for the upcoming midterm election and that it could hurt Republicans overall in congressional races if Mississippi did so.

mississippitoday.org
u/MSTODAYnews — 9 days ago
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When House members meet this month for a special session to redraw state Supreme Court districts, they will convene in the Old Capitol building, where Mississippi lawmakers once implemented Jim Crow and voted to secede from the Union over slavery.

Black lawmakers told Mississippi Today that the optics of moving to dilute Black voting power in a building where officials previously voted to systemically disenfranchise Black citizens is tone deaf and insulting or, at best, symbolic.

u/MSTODAYnews — 18 days ago
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Politicians in Mississippi and across the South are pondering whether the U.S. Supreme Court ruling will allow them to redraw lines along party affiliation for this year’s midterms now that racial safeguards appear to have been weakened. That might prove a difficult task in Mississippi, since it has already held midterm congressional primaries and its congressional lines already greatly favor the GOP, which holds all but one of six congressional seats.

Read the full story: https://mississippitoday.org/2026/04/29/callais-supreme-court-mississippi/

u/MSTODAYnews — 23 days ago
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A federal judge in Mississippi will soon decide if she should go forward with adopting a new Mississippi Supreme Court district map now that the nation’s highest court has significantly weakened the federal Voting Rights Act. 

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, at the same time, wants lawmakers to create new state Supreme Court election maps, in a special session of the Legislature he has ordered to happen May 20, now that the U.S. high court has ruled in a landmark Louisiana v. Callais redistricting case.

u/MSTODAYnews — 23 days ago
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Longtime Sen. Hob Bryan, chairman of the Senate Public Health Committee, discusses the recent failed attempt by lawmakers to override the governor’s veto of a bill aimed at oversight and transparency in spending of hundreds of millions of federal funds for rural health care in Mississippi.

Watch the latest episode of The Other Side, Mississippi Today's political podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NchONt0yOvg

u/MSTODAYnews — 23 days ago
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Jackson business owner and past mayoral candidate Charlotte Reeves is facing allegations of fraud in a lawsuit tied to development of a multimillion-dollar movie studio in Jackson – a project that has been stalled for years.

Reeves is being sued by Los Angeles-based entertainment consultant and film studio owner Robert Schnitzer. Reeves – who ran unsuccessfully for mayor four times between 1997 and 2021– contracted with him in October 2025 to help launch her own studio and entertainment center, called Mill Street Studios, and he now says Reeves illegally terminated their contract and did not pay him for prior work.

Read the full story: https://mississippitoday.org/2026/04/16/lawsuit-jackson-movie-studio/

u/MSTODAYnews — 25 days ago