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16 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
MS did not redistrict trial court districts after the 2000 census or immediately after the 2010 census, presumably because MS did not want to bring this system to DOJ's attention. 1/
However, after SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, then-MS House Rep. and VRA opponent Mark Baker introduced HB 703 (2015) to perpetuate MS's this racist electoral system. 2/

Read about Baker from @ashtonpittman @JxnFreePress:
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/mar/…
Sam Mims, who was the sole legislator to cosponsor Baker's bill, is the longtime chairman of the MS House's public health committee despite having no notable accomplishments making healthcare available to Mississippians. 3/
The roll-call votes on the Baker/Mims bill continue to persuade me that Rep. Omeria Scott, who voted against it, is among the #MSleg's finest members. 4/

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18 Dec
THREAD: The 5th Circuit allowed @splcenter's claim that MS may not send black students to inferior schools to go forward temporarily, but SPLC's victory is proving that DOJ can win this suit even though SPLC will lose it.

So, we should urge @JoeBiden to join it.

Here's why: 1/
The federal law that SPLC wants to enforce is the MS Readmission Act (below), which is the act passed by Congress to readmit MS as a state after the Civil War—and which protects "the school rights and privileges" of MS children. 2/ Image
MS moved to dismiss SPLC's lawsuit for several reasons, and Judge Barbour (the trial judge) dismissed the suit finding that MS is immune from suit. splcenter.org/sites/default/…

Since that was enough to dismiss the suit, Barbour did not consider MS's alternative motions to dismiss. 3/
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18 Dec
The MS Supreme Court refuses to grant a new trial for another "shaken-baby syndrome" case by a 6-3 vote: courts.ms.gov/Images/Opinion…

This is also another Steven Hayne case. All the #ShakenBabyMS convictions and all the Hayne convictions should be treated with great skepticism.
I note that Judge Johnson—the trial judge who refused to grant a new trial and who the MS Supreme Court's majority affirms—is one of Mississippi's white-opportunity circuit judges.
Every majority-black circuit district in Mississippi is gerrymandered to produce white-opportunity subdistricts.

None of Mississippi's majority-white districts has a black-opportunity subdistrict. Instead, their judges are elected at-large.
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17 Dec
The MS Supreme Court refuses to hear the speedy-trial claim of a criminal defendant who was not tried for nearly 4 years after he was arrested allegedly due to an "overcrowded docket," leading me to wonder...

@bricewigginsMS has the 11th Circuit asked you for a new judge.? 1/ Image
The MS Court of Appeals' decision forgiving the presumptively prejudicial three-year delay is here: courts.ms.gov/Images/Opinion…

The MS Supreme Court's 6-3 order denying review is here: courts.ms.gov/appellatecourt… 2/
In light of the Court of Appeals' analysis, I can only assume that the 11th Circuit is begging the #MSleg to give it more judges. 3/ ImageImage
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17 Dec
THREAD: MHA president Tim Moore tried to talk to Paul Gallo. It did not go well.

Without using the phrase "Medicaid expansion," Moore explained that pandemic or not, Mississippi's hospitals are struggling because Mississippi refused to expand Medicaid. 1/4
Gallo asks why MS hospitals aren't doing as well as retail superstores even though hospitals receive the CARES Act money.

Unable to say "Medicaid expansion," Moore notes that MS accepted federal aid for COVID-19 but not for "all these costs over here," motioning to the side. 2/4
Moore then emphasizes that healthcare workers like nurses and respiratory therapists are fleeing Mississippi for better-paying jobs in other states. 3/4
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17 Dec
THREAD: The Mississippi Supreme Court today sides with @tatereeves against @PhilipGunnMS and @JasonWhiteMS by a vote of 5-2-2.

Opinion here: courts.ms.gov/Images/Opinion… 1/
The five-justice majority questions its own jurisdiction to hear this case. The majority says that it will consider any/all future lawsuits of this type filed by legislators against gubernatorial vetoes to be beyond its jurisdiction. 2/
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17 Dec
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If @CommAndyGipson used his platform to bolster @TCBPubHealth @msdh's public health messaging, he could throw in brags about how @MSDeptofAg provided the fairgrounds as an early testing site.

Instead, Gipson argues against a second MS lockdown that no one is proposing. 2/6 ImageImage
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