Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Jim Crow-era voting law

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a challenge next term to a Mississippi Constitutional provision that prohibits certain felons from voting. Passed during the Jim Crow-era to disenfranchise Black voters, the provision’s racist origins are undisputed. But a lower court ruled that discriminatory intent was cleansed by two amendments passed decades later. Roy Harness and Kamal Karriem, whose forgery and embezzlement convictions, respectively, prevent them from voting under the provision, appealed the decision to the justices in a request backed by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the...