The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has been asked to overturn a lower court's ruling requiring Mississippi to draw its ...

Politicians in Mississippi and across the South are pondering whether the U.S. Supreme Court ruling will allow them to redraw ...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is announcing a special session for judicial redistricting following an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major Voting Rights Act case.

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WLBT) - Attorneys for both sides are asking the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate a lower court ...

In reversing the Madison County Circuit Court, justices found that the former Governor had sufficiently stated a claim for ...

State Rep. Robert Johnson says Gov. Tate Reeves' two-day special session to redraw state Supreme Court districts after a ...

The Supreme Court threw out Louisiana's redrawn congressional map on April 29, triggering Mississippi's special session on ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court revived former Gov. Phil Bryant's defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Today, an online news outlet, in an April 23 judgment. Bryant and his wife Deborah filed the ...

The Supreme Court's conservative majority hearing arguments Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.

WEBSITE AT WAPT.COM AND OUR MOBILE APP. THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT HAS DENIED TIKTOK’S ATTEMPT TO HALT A LAWSUIT THAT WAS FILED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNN FITCH. THE MOVE WILL NOW ALLOW THE CASE TO ...

FILE - The American flag waves outside the Mississippi Supreme Court in Jackson, Miss., April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates, File) (Sophie Bates, Copyright 2026 ...