{"id":1171821,"date":"2023-08-05T16:47:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1f040ac89768bf918cda3cd63e44e74d"},"modified":"2023-08-05T16:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:47:36","slug":"federal-court-rules-against-jim-crow-era-disenfranchisement-law-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/05\/federal-court-rules-against-jim-crow-era-disenfranchisement-law-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Rules Against Jim Crow-Era Disenfranchisement Law in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. federal appellate court on Friday ruled that a Jim Crow-era Mississippi law permanently disenfranchising people with certain felony convictions is unconstitutional. In a decision that can be appealed to the full U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, a three-judge panel of the tribunal ruled 2-1 that Section 241 of Mississippi&rsquo;s 1890 Constitution &ldquo;violates the Eighth Amendment&rsquo;s prohibition on...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/federal-court-rules-against-jim-crow-era-disenfranchisement-law-in-mississippi\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/federal-court-rules-against-jim-crow-era-disenfranchisement-law-in-mississippi\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just as unconstitutional today as it was when it was enacted,&#8221; ACLU national legal director David Cole said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22667,30252,3571,4,66949,9761],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171825,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171821\/revisions\/1171825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}