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Ben Logan, the city attorney, told the Daily Journal that he is researching opinions issued by the Mississippi Ethics Commission to answer the question. If Logan and other officials cannot find an ...
Within a day of the Gestational Age Act's passage, Mississippi's only abortion clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, and one of its doctors, Sacheen Carr-Ellis, sued state officials Thomas E. Dobbs, state health officer with the Mississippi State Department of Health, and Kenneth Cleveland, executive director of the Mississippi State ...
State Auditor Shad White wants legislators to take a look at open meetings laws, open records and whistle blower policies this legislative session.
He has represented Mississippi's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. He became the ranking member of the United States House Committee on Ethics upon the August 2022 death of Jackie Walorski, and became its chair in the 118th Congress after Republicans won a House majority that November.
United States v. Fordice, 505 U.S. 717 (1992), is a United States Supreme Court case that resulted in an eight to one ruling that the eight public universities in Mississippi had not sufficiently integrated and that the state must take affirmative action to change this under the Equal Protection Clause.
This is the third part in an occasional series looking at the lawsuits faced by the City of Jackson. In 2017, local law enforcement was involved in a high-speed chase, which ultimately led to the ...
The Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a 2014 act that states that "government should not substantially burden religious exercise without compelling justification. [1] The act protects religious people from legal repercussions if they verbally condemn the lifestyle or actions of LGBTQ persons. Additionally, the bill expands the ...
Mississippi legislature was one of eight states nationwide that tried, again, and failed, to pass a "fetal heartbeat" bill in 2017. [21] In March 2018, the Mississippi House passed House Bill 1510, the Gestational Age Act, that outlawed abortion after 15 weeks "except in a medical emergency or in the case of a severe fetal abnormality".