{"id":1991432,"date":"2023-08-04T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mississippis-permanent-disenfranchisement-law-struck-down-as-unconstitutional\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:05:31","slug":"mississippis-permanent-disenfranchisement-law-struck-down-as-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mississippis-permanent-disenfranchisement-law-struck-down-as-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi&#8217;s law denying voting rights deemed unconstitutional."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmississippis-permanent-disenfranchisement-law-struck-down-as-unconstitutional%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1991432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>In a Landmark Decision, \u200cFifth Circuit Court of Appeals Strikes Down Unconstitutional Mississippi Law<\/h2>\n<p>In a groundbreaking\u200c ruling\u2062 on Friday, the Fifth\u2063 Circuit Court of \u2063Appeals delivered a resounding blow to an unjust \u2064provision in the Mississippi\u200c Constitution. Section 241, which \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mississippis-permanent-disenfranchisement-law-struck-down-as-unconstitutional\/\" title=\"Mississippi's law denying voting rights deemed unconstitutional.\">imposed permanent disenfranchisement<\/a> for certain \u2064crimes, was declared\u200b unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment&#8217;s prohibition against cruel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-judge-ore-vaccinate-inmates-before-seniors-teachers\/\" title=\"U.S. Judge: Ore. vaccinate inmates before seniors, teachers\">unusual punishment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-history-first-president-in-40-years-to-punt-on-contacting-israel\/\" title=\"Biden Makes History: First President in 40 Years to Punt on Contacting Israel\">historic decision<\/a> comes as a result of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-people-exist-oreo-cookie-virtue-signals-while-parent-company-faces-child-slave-labor-lawsuit\/\" title=\"\u2018Trans People Exist\u2019: Oreo Cookie Virtue Signals While Parent Company Faces Child Slave Labor Lawsuit\">class-action lawsuit filed<\/a> in 2018 \u2062by six brave\u200b Mississippi citizens who had been permanently disenfranchised. With the invaluable \u200cassistance of the Southern \u2062Poverty Law Center, they \u2062challenged the \u200dconstitutionality of Sections 241 and \u200b253 of the \u2062state&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Victory for Justice \u2062and\u200c Equality<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Mississippi denies this \u200bprecious\u2062 right&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Friday ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution unconstitutional. This section imposes permanent disenfranchisement for specific crimes, violating the Eighth Amendment&#8217;s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision follows a class-action lawsuit filed by six Mississippi citizens who were permanently disenfranchised, with legal assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1627,"featured_media":1991433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}