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/
The MS Supreme Court has decided this type of case in the past, which the current majority considers to be beyond its own authority. 3/
But rather than simply overturning precedent now and dismissing this case for lack of jurisdiction, the majority proceeds to decide this case for which it believes it lacks jurisdiction and holds instead that, in future, it won't decide cases for which it lacks jurisdiction. 4/
Justices Coleman and Maxwell would not decide this case for which they and the 5-justice majority all believe they lack jurisdiction.
Instead, since Coleman and Maxwell believe they lack jurisdiction to decide this case, they would dismiss it. 5/
By ruling for @tatereeves, the majority upholds Tate's vetoes of CARES Act appropriations for a Tate County hospital and the MAGnet Community Health Disparity Program to fight COVID-19. 7/
Here is Tate County's representative @tlamar44 explaining quite well to a confused @paulgalloshow how Tate's veto targeted particular MSians all while hundreds of millions of dollars in CARES Act funds went to other Mississippi hospitals: 8/
Here is @msdh's most recent COVID-19 data snapshot for Tate County, showing that the county had surging pandemic numbers as of December 5, although the county is in a significantly worse crisis now, less then two weeks later: 9/
This decision will make @tatereeves happy because he is a vindictive governor with disdain for @PhilipGunnMS@JasonWhiteMS@tlamar44 and the poor MSians who needed these appropriations to protect them from the pandemic. 10/
My assumption is that the CARES Act money that would have funded these appropriations will instead go to Mississippi's unemployment trust fund, since IIRC all unspent CARES Act monies are going to that fund so they won't revert back to the federal treasury. 11/
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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.
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/
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/
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.
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/
The MS Court of Appeals' decision forgiving the presumptively prejudicial three-year delay is here: courts.ms.gov/Images/Opinion…
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
QUICKTHREAD: Consider the opportunity cost to @CommAndyGipson of pandering to the fringe. 1/6
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
And imagine if @CommAndyGipson used the time he spent pandering to the "Stop the Steal" crowd to, instead, work on economic development in the fairgrounds area of @CityofJacksonMS. I continue to believe that... 3/6