{"id":1991491,"date":"2023-08-04T20:57:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-rules-against-mississippi-jim-crow-era-voting-restrictions-for-felons\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T20:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:59:32","slug":"appeals-court-rules-against-mississippi-jim-crow-era-voting-restrictions-for-felons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-rules-against-mississippi-jim-crow-era-voting-restrictions-for-felons\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court rejects Mississippi&#8217;s Jim Crow-era voting restrictions for felons."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fappeals-court-rules-against-mississippi-jim-crow-era-voting-restrictions-for-felons%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=1991491&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>The 5th U.S. \u2064Circuit Court of Appeals Strikes Down Jim \u200dCrow-Era Voting Restriction<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200b 5th U.S. Circuit \u200cCourt of Appeals\u200c made a landmark ruling on\u2062 Friday, striking down a discriminatory voting\u200c restriction law that dates back to the Jim Crow\u200c era. This law, known as Section 241 of the\u200b state&#8217;s \u200bconstitution, was originally created in 1890\u200b with racist intent. It specifically targeted felons, denying them the right\u200b to vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judges voted \u200c2-1 against Section 241, recognizing its\u200c unjust nature and its\u200d roots\u200d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-expected-to-follow-up-race-based-admissions-decision-with-new-case-on-huge-issue-at-high-schools\/\" title=\"SCOTUS to tackle major high school issue after race-based admissions ruling.\">racial \u2062discrimination<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>A History of \u200dDiscrimination<\/h3>\n<p>Section 241 listed various offenses that would result in the loss of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wow-georgia-judge-who-also-is-stacy-abrams-sister-blocks-elections-officials-from-challenging-voters-who-live-outside-of-registered-district\/\" title=\"WOW! Georgia Judge Who Also Is Stacy Abrams\u2019 Sister BLOCKS Elections Officials from Challenging Voters Who Live Outside of Registered District!\">voting rights<\/a>,\u200c including murder, \u2064rape, bribery, theft, \u200carson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement,\u2063 and bigamy. However,\u200b this ruling sheds light \u2063on the \u2064fact that this law \u200bdisproportionately affected the Black \u2064community.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Jame Dennis presented data showing\u2062 that between 1994 and\u2064 2017, 58% of the \u200d29,000 Mississippians convicted\u200b of \u200bdisqualifying offenses who had completed their sentences were Black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While an amendment in \u20631968\u2064 attempted to remove\u200c any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-korea-say-u-s-plan-for-ev-tax-breaks-may-breach-wto-rules\/\" title=\"EU, Korea say U.S. plan for EV tax breaks may breach WTO rules\">discriminatory elements<\/a> from the law, it \u2064was \u200bclear that the intent behind Section 241 remained rooted in racism. Another amendment in 1950 removed &#8220;burglary&#8221; from the list \u2062of\u2064 offenses,\u2062 further highlighting the\u200d arbitrary nature of the law.<\/p>\n<h3>A Fight for Justice<\/h3>\n<p>Roy\u2062 Harness and Kamal \u2063Karriem, two Black men convicted of \u200dforgery and embezzlement,\u200b were \u200bdirectly impacted by \u2063this unjust law. In 2018, they filed a lawsuit arguing that Section 241 \u2064violated the Eighth Amendment\u200c of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits cruel\u2064 and unusual punishments.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This \u200bis a major victory\u200b for Mississippians who have completed their sentences and deserve to participate\u2064 fully in our \u2062political process,&#8221;\u2062 stated Jonathan Youngwood,\u200c the lawyer \u2064representing Harness\u200d and Karriem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the battle is not\u2062 over yet. \u200bRepublican state\u200c Attorney\u2064 General Lynn Fitch plans to\u2063 appeal the court&#8217;s decision, prolonging the fight for justice.<\/p>\n<h3>A Wider Issue<\/h3>\n<p>Mississippi \u2063is not\u200d alone in implementing lifelong voting bans for convicted \u2064felons. Eight other states, including Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, and \u200dWyoming, have similar restrictions. Maryland\u2063 and Missouri also have bans specifically targeting\u2064 those\u2063 convicted of \u2064election crimes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the other hand, 35 states have chosen not to impose such bans. Washington D.C., \u2063Maine, and Vermont even allow felons to vote \u200bfrom prison before completing their sentences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the fight for \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-rules-against-mississippi-jim-crow-era-voting-restrictions-for-felons\/\" title=\"Appeals court rejects Mississippi's Jim Crow-era voting restrictions for felons.\">equal\u2063 voting rights continues<\/a>, this ruling serves \u200bas a\u200d significant \u200dstep towards dismantling discriminatory laws and ensuring that all citizens have the opportunity to participate fully in\u2064 our\u200c democracy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE \u200cTO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 against Section 241 of the state&#8217;s constitution, a Jim Crow-era law that bars felons from voting. This ruling acknowledges the law&#8217;s racist origins in 1890 and its discriminatory intent. The law specifically targets individuals convicted of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, and obtaining money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991492,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1991491","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}