
Women represent half of the US. But they sometimes lack clout in budget and tax talks
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Women represent half of the U.S. population but it's still rare for them to have leading roles in setting taxes or budgets in some states.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Women represent half of the U.S. population but it's still rare for them to have leading roles in setting taxes or budgets in some states.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- State Sen. Jenifer Branning has won a seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court, defeating Justice Jim Kitchens.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- State Sen. Jenifer Branning has won a seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court, defeating Justice Jim Kitchens.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Amy St. Pe' won an open seat on the Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday, wrapping up one of two runoffs in judicial races between candidates who advanced from the Nov. 5 general election.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Amy St. Pe' has won an open seat on the Mississippi Court of Appeals.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi voters were deciding winners for one seat on the state Supreme Court and one on the state Court of Appeals.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi voters will decide winners for one seat on the state Supreme Court and one on the state Court of Appeals.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Mississippi's Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft, attorneys say in new court papers.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A federal appeals court panel incorrectly interpreted federal and state laws when it ruled that Mississippi cannot count mail-in ballots that are cast and postmarked by Election Day but arrive a few days later, two groups argue as they seek a new hearing.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The Mississippi Senate discriminated against a Black attorney by paying her about half of what her white colleagues were paid for doing the same job, the U.S. Justice Department says in a lawsuit it filed Friday.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The mayor of Mississippi's capital city, the top prosecutor in the state's largest county and a Jackson city council member have been indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges in a case that has already forced the resignation of another city council member, according to federal court records unsealed Thursday.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi has defeated Democrat Ty Pinkins, a challenger who received little financial support from his own party in a heavily Republican state.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi is trying to extend his 30-year career on Capitol Hill as he faces Democrat Ty Pinkins, a challenger who received little financial support from his own party in a heavily Republican state.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Democrat Ty Pinkins has jogged along highways and past cotton fields to try to draw attention to his effort to unseat Mississippi's senior Republican U.S. senator, Roger Wicker.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi's Republican legislative leaders said Thursday that they plan to push for Medicaid expansion to cover working people who earn too little to afford private insurance -- a position that business groups have advocated but that Republican Gov. Tate Reeves opposes.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will crisscross several swing states on Wednesday, passing each other in Wisconsin, where the former president is scheduled to appear in Green Bay with a onetime local icon, retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre.
FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday that legislators should ignore "myths" from opponents who want to block efforts by him and some other Republican leaders to phase out the state's income tax.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats' presidential nomination Thursday, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a televised speech that challenged the seating of Mississippi's all-white delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi has the largest percentage of Black residents in the U.S., but only one Black justice serves on the state's highest court.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Flooding left squishy, stinky messes in hundreds of homes in Mississippi's capital city in 2020 -- a recurring problem when heavy rains push the Pearl River over its banks.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee that sought to block Mississippi from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after after it.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi can wait until next year to redraw some of its legislative districts to replace ones where Black voting power is currently diluted, three federal judges said Thursday.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi should work quickly to fulfill the court-ordered redrawing of some legislative districts to ensure more equitable representation for Black residents, attorneys for voting rights groups said in a new court filing Friday.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Redrawing some Mississippi legislative districts in time for this November's election is impossible because of tight deadlines to prepare ballots, state officials say in new court papers.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Three federal judges are telling Mississippi to redraw some of its legislative districts, saying the current ones dilute the power of Black voters in three parts of the state.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi is revising the restrictions it put in place last year on who can provide absentee voting assistance to people who have disabilities or cannot read or write -- restrictions that were blocked by a federal judge before ultimately being altered by lawmakers.
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