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Mississippi
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 11 stories to Mississippi since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Mississippi.
35days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Mississippi
10 storiesSupreme Court strikes down Louisiana congressional map 6-3 and requires proof of intentional discrimination for future Voting Rights Act challenges.
Mississippi, Alabama signal swift action
Justice Department moves to end more than 50 school desegregation cases from the 1960s and 1970s, calling them "onerous and outdated."
Over 75% of division staff gone
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
Mississippi DA Barton erects 'firing squad is legal' billboard on I-55 at the Tennessee line aimed at drivers leaving majority-Black Memphis.
One of five firing-squad states
55 Cuban deportees held for weeks at Guantánamo in former Al Qaeda prison were transferred back to the U.S. after Cuba refused to accept them.
780 migrants held during crackdown
National Park Service pulled brochures from Medgar Evers' home that called his killer a racist, then returned them hours after Mississippi Today reported the removal.
31 years between assassination and conviction
Trump says all 50 states joined most-favored-nation Medicaid drug pricing that "alone should win us the midterms," as experts say Medicaid patients already pay little.
$64.3 billion savings go to governments
The Supreme Court rules 5-4 that states may count absentee ballots arriving after election day if postmarked on time, upholding Mississippi's grace period.
Barrett, Roberts joined three liberal justices
Federal judge orders special elections for Mississippi Supreme Court after ruling electoral map violates Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voter power.
Department of Homeland Security deploying 250 agents to New Orleans for two-month operation targeting 5,000 arrests, led by commander previously rebuked by federal judge for misleading court.
90 day naval base use begins Friday
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Education Department formally repeals Biden's 2024 Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students, skipping public comment, after courts struck it down in 2025.
Not enforced for 18 months
Trump asks Supreme Court to let federal prisons end most gender-affirming care for transgender inmates, saying prison officials needn't show evidence of security risks.
Judge found policy reverse-engineered from order
Fighting back
3 storiesICE releases Mississippi high school brothers detained at school bus stop with valid F-1 student visas after Republican Sen. Wicker's office and Sen. Hyde-Smith's office press the case.
ICE called Congolese brothers "out of status"
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
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