Mississippi explicitly urged the Supreme Court this morning to do away with Roe v. Wade, the perpetually controversial 1973 ruling that took the regulation of abortion away from the states and made abortion lawful throughout the whole United States. It is time for the court to finally right the wrong it made 48 years ago,…
Overturn Seminal Abortion Precedent Roe V. Wade, State Urges Supreme Court
Supreme Court to Hear Mississippi Abortion Case That Could Overturn Roe V. Wade
The Supreme Court is gearing up to hear a serious legal challenge on Dec. 1 to its 1973 ruling that legalized abortion throughout the United States—and contributed mightily to the polarization of the politics of the nation for nearly half a century. The court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, court file 19-1392, a…
Supreme Court Rules Against Mississippi in Water Fight With Tennessee
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee was improperly taking water was not correct. The case was filed years ago by Mississippi, which alleged that a Memphis-area utility provider was wrongly pumping groundwater from a portion of the Middle Claiborne Aquifer, which lies beneath eight states. The case “involves a long, continuing,…
Mississippi, Illinois School Board Associations Withdraw From National Group Over ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter
November 21, 2021
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Mississippi and Illinois have become the latest state school board groups to discontinue their membership in the National School Board Association (NSBA), citing disagreement over a letter calling for federal intervention in parental protests. In the widely criticized Sept. 29 letter to President Joe Biden, the NSBA characterized disruptions at school board meetings as “a…
Mississippi Executes Man Who Killed Wife, Terrorized Family
PARCHMAN, Miss.— A man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and sexually assaulting her young daughter as her mother lay dying was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the first inmate executed in Mississippi in nine years. David Neal Cox, 50, abandoned all appeals and filed court papers calling himself “worthy of death”…
Mississippi: 14,000 Pandemic Food Cards Mistakenly Deactivated
JACKSON, Miss.—More than 14,000 low-income children in Mississippi had their pandemic food cards mistakenly deactivated, prompting an apology from state officials and a promise that new cards would be mailed to their families within days. Children with an apostrophe in their first or last names all had their cards deactivated Monday by a processing partner,…
Pennsylvania School Boards Association Quits National School Boards Association
A controversial letter sent to President Joe Biden, in which the National School Boards Association (NSBA) asked that some parents attending school board meetings be considered domestic terrorists, was the final straw for the Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA). The letter (PDF) prompted the Department of Justice to announce that the FBI and U.S. attorneys would…
Mississippi Public Universities Banned From Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines
September 22, 2021
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Mississippi’s higher education governing board has voted to prohibit public universities in the state from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for students, faculty, and staff. At a Sept. 17 meeting, the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning voted 8–1 to prohibit the vaccine as a condition of enrollment or employment, except at…
Mississippi Nurse Organizes Rally Against Vaccine Mandates
September 20, 2021
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About 100 people stood in the rain on Saturday to protest vaccine mandates in front of a hospital in Columbus, Mississippi. Nurse Amber Anders organized the rally, one of many that have been held throughout the state. “My biggest frustration with this is that I know I have natural immunity, so I don’t need the…
Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments Challenging Roe v. Wade in December
Arguments in a case challenging the validity of the Supreme Court ruling in 1973 that access to abortion is a constitutional right are scheduled to take place on Dec. 1. The nation’s top court will hear that day from lawyers on both sides in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the court announced Monday. Justices agreed…
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