Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
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.
As the NAACP Legal Defense Fund notes, 'Section 241 permanently disenfranchises people convicted of 10 specific crimes, eight of which were chosen by all-white delegates in 1890 and based on their belief that Black people were more likely than white people to be convicted of those crimes.' There are currently more than 20 crimes that disenfranchise Mississippians from voting.
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