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28 Jul, 8 tweets, 4 min read
"Burnout" is one way to put it, but there's no ignoring that the pandemic helped Mississippi's nurses learn they can make more money doing the same work in other states.

So, Mississippi's nursing shortage continues to grow.
Mississippi used to have financial aid programs for nursing students and nursing teachers that kept nurses in-state due to in-state service requirements for loan forgiveness.

However, MS stopped funding those programs several years ago.
IHL requested funding for nursing financial aid programs at a Senate health committee hearing late last year to address our nursing shortage and nursing teacher shortage.

Sen. @McMahanMS suggested that IHL cut the cost of nursing programs in half instead.
Meanwhile, @MGCCC recently signed a deal to help their nursing students move on to complete 4-year degrees i̶n̶ ̶M̶i̶s̶s̶i̶s̶s̶i̶p̶p̶i̶ at @UofSouthAlabama—giving Mississippi's future nurses a pipeline heading directly out of the state, never to return.
wlox.com/2021/07/23/gul…
Precisely.
This makes sense to most people.

The #MSleg? As soon as you bring up nursing pay, they forget entirely how the free market works.
I'm tellin' y'all. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
I have heard this repeatedly.

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THREAD: Mississippi schools that don't require masks should not just say "voluntary masking." They should say masking is required unless the parents opt a child out of masking.

Most importantly, the opt-out process should be identical to Mississippi's absentee voting process. 1/
In order to opt your child out of masking, you will have to submit a waiver form.

But you can't just download the waiver form—the form doesn't count unless it has the clerk's original initials on it. So you have to request it from the clerk. 2/
Unfortunately, you can only request the waiver form using an official "Application for Waiver Form," which itself must bear the clerk's original initials to count.

So, you have to start by calling or emailing the clerk to request an "Application for Waiver Form." 3/
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1 Jul
Defendant offers race-neutral reasons to use three of his peremptory strikes to remove three white jurors from the jury pool.

Trial judge (who is black) works way too hard to seat the three white jurors.
MS Court of Appeals decides to let the trial judge redecorate her reasoning for seating the three white jurors. 🤦‍♂️

Judge Westbrooks, joined in part by Judges McDonald and McCarty, would remand for a new trial.

courts.ms.gov/Images/Opinion…
As I keep saying, once Biden nominates his US attorneys for Mississippi, DOJ should simply sue Mississippi for race discrimination in jury selection, arguing that Mississippi has abused the peremptory-challenge system too much.
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1 Jul
QUICKTHREAD: The MS Court of Appeals this week affirmed an 18-year-old's 10-year sentence (4 years to serve, 6 suspended) for gratification of lust (GOL) with a 15-year-old. courts.ms.gov/Images/Opinion… 1/
The GOL statute says it applies to defendants "over the age of 18." casetext.com/statute/missis…

So, one of the defendant's arguments was that it is unconstitutionally vague to apply the statute to defendants under the age of 19. 2/
That argument initially seemed weak to me. However, it appears that the result makes Mississippi's overall statutory scheme inconsistent.

It does not appear that the two teenagers were a full 36 months apart in age... 3/
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21 Jun
Supertalk received $2,138,258 worth of PPP loans.
Philip Gunn's law firm received a PPP loan for $680,730.
Chris McDaniel's law firm received $415,000 worth of PPP loans.

(Less than Gunn's loan because McDaniel pulls himself up by his bootstraps.)
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2 Jun
THREAD: This victimhood narrative from Republican personalities keeps popping up, but the GOP is responsible for its own reputation—and Mississippi Republicans are fully capable to earn a pro-voter reputation if that is the reputation they want. 1/
For example, if Republicans want to become more popular among college-educated voters, a smart way to do it would be to make voting easier for college students.

As fmr. Sen. @SallyDoty explained in 2016, voting is hard for MS college voters. 2/
Doty's bill to allow college registrars to witness their own students' voting paperwork—which the MS College Republicans supported—died in the House in 2016, but there's nothing stopping the #MSleg from taking it up again now. 3/
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THREAD: Mississippi has had dual systems of voter registration for nearly all our state's history, and this New Hampshire proposal brings to mind Mississippi's sordid history in this area. 1/
MS first instituted a dual voter registration following MS's 1890 constitutional convention, requiring voters to register with their city clerk for municipal elections separate from registering with the county for state and federal elections. aclu.org/legal-document… 2/ Image
Pam Karlan—who is now principal deputy AAG of DOJ's @CivilRights Division—represented plaintiffs who challenged Mississippi's separate-municipal dual voter registration system in the 1980s federal case, Martin v. Allain. casetext.com/case/martin-v-… 3/ Image
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