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Mississippi Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, who is seeking his party's renomination for lieutenant governor, responds to a newspaper publisher's question during the Mississippi Press Association annual meeting in Flowood, Miss., Friday, June 16, 2023. Hosemann faces State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, in the party's primary. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Republicans tout conservative credentials in lieutenant governor primary
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Fri,06/16/23-6:53PM , 945 Reads
FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and state Sen. Chris McDaniel, the fellow Republican trying to unseat him in a primary challenge, each sought to burnish their conservative credentials in speeches at the Mississippi Press Association convention on Friday.
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Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Randolph says he has "No comment," as he exits the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., May 22, 2023. In a rare address to a federal court on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, Randolph called efforts to attach him to a lawsuit challenging a new state law a "circus" with "no legal precedent U.S. history." The lawsuit, filed by the national, state and local chapters of the NAACP, challenges a new state law that would require him to appoint some unelected judges in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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'A circus': Mississippi Supreme Court Justice decries efforts to keep him in lawsuit
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,06/14/23-8:03PM , 241 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In a rare address to a federal court Wednesday, Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Randolph called efforts to attach him to a lawsuit challenging a new state law a “circus” with “no legal precedent in U.S. history.”
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This December 2022 photo provided by Nakala Murry of Indianola, Miss., shows her 11-year-old son Aderrien Murry, who was shot and wounded by an Indianola Police Department officer on May 20, 2023, during a domestic disturbance call at the home of Murry's family. The Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded the unarmed boy has been suspended without pay during an investigation, a city official said Tuesday, June 13. (Courtesy of Nakala Murry via AP, File)

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Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy suspended without pay
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Tue,06/13/23-6:47PM , 185 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home has been suspended without pay, a city official said Tuesday.
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Jill Collen Jefferson, president of JULIAN, civil rights and international human rights law firm, speaks in Lexington, Miss., during a civil rights tour, June 1, 2023. The civil rights attorney was arrested Saturday, June 10, while filming a traffic stop conducted by officers from a police department she is suing in federal court. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)

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Mississippi civil rights lawyer arrested filming traffic stop, attorney says
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Sun,06/11/23-4:28PM , 196 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi civil rights lawyer was arrested Saturday after filming a traffic stop conducted by officers from a police department she is suing in federal court, her attorney says.
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