Jim Crow Resurgence

[Zwinmar]

Earlier this month, white representatives in the Mississippi House approved a bill to create a new district—that includes all of the majority-white neighborhoods in Jackson, a capital city that is 83 percent Black. This includes creating a criminal justice system for the district, overseen by an all-white power base.

Under House Bill 1020, the white conservative chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court would handpick the new district’s two supervising judges; its prosecutors and public defenders would be chosen by the state’s white Republican attorney general.

Full Article here

[Highlord Laan]

I'm not surprised, it's fucking mississippi. Too bad nothing will be done about it, both the "law" and the state, because muh states rights.

Another tally on the wall of reasons why the republican party is a domestic terror organization that needs to be destroyed.

[LadyTevar]

Countdown til the ACLU files a lawsuit --