The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a Black death row inmate in Mississippi — and one particular element of the ...

A federal judge ordered special elections after earlier ordering the state to redraw the electoral map used to select justices, concluding the current configuration dilutes the power of Black voters.

Over the past decade or so, the VRA has been battered by a series of hits from the increasingly conservative high court. In 2013, the justices knocked out a key pillar of the law by eliminating ...

This November, tens of millions of voters will select Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump to be president for the next four years. But, the presidency is just one piece of ...

The counting came down to the wire and took several days, but eventually after the opening of mail-in absentee and affidavit ballots, the race came to a tight conclusion Friday afternoon. State Sen.

Mississippi voters have dealt defeat to one conservative state Supreme Court justice and forced a moderate justice into a Nov. 26 runoff, with the final outcome possibly making the court more open to ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will review the death sentence of Terry Pitchford in a case that could clarify how rigorously courts ...

The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a Mississippi death row inmate whose case involved a prosecutor with a history of racial bias in jury selection.

A Mississippi man’s capital conviction will have the Supreme Court confronting racial discrimination on juries in 2026.

State Sen. Jenifer Branning and Justice Jim Kitchens were locked in a closely contested runoff for a Mississippi Supreme Court seat late Tuesday, with votes still being counted. Meanwhile, Amy St. Pe' ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Mississippi’s longest death row inmate was denied an appeal by the Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday. Richard Gerald Jordan has been on death row since 1976 when he was ...