An appeals court in Mississippi voted to uphold a Jim Crow-era voting restriction law Wednesday that strips convicted felons of their right to vote.
The law, which was created with racist intent in 1890, is no longer being used for racist purposes, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined. Section 241 in Mississippi's constitution specifies that those who are convicted of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement, or bigamy no longer have the right to vote.
Amendments to the state constitution were made in 1950 and 1968, with “burglary” being removed in 1950 from the list of crimes that prohibited people from voting and “murder” and “rape” being added to the list in 1968. Three dissenting opinions were filed. Judge James Graves argued that the racist atmosphere of the 1960s compared to the 1890s was not as different as the others were making it seem, noting the Mississippi race riots in the 1960s.
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