When you break the supermajority in the Senate, money bills, especially taxing and spending, budget, a lot of times it takes a supermajority to get those bills passed. If there is no supermajority, then that means that the Republican leadership within the Senate will have to negotiate with most of the Black people elected as Democrats.

A federal judge ordered special elections after earlier ordering the state to redraw the electoral map used to select justices, concluding the current configuration dilutes the power of Black voters.

MISSISSIPPI (WCBI) – Christmas is just days away, and so are some important dates for next year’s Congressional Elections. This Friday, December 26, is the qualifying deadline for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Absentee ballots will be available January 26, and potential voters have until February 9 to register.

Mississippi has agreed to voluntarily turn over its full voter registration list to the U.S. Department of Justice, even as the federal government filed lawsuits against four other jurisdictions for refusing to provide the records.