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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 17
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Mississippi Supreme Court overturns voter-approved medical marijuana initiative, based on a technicality that the ballot law assumed five congressional districts in effect in the 1990s.
Mississippi voter ID law could be struck down by anti-medical marijuana ruling because the restrictive voter laws also relied on the same ballot laws.
More likely the Supreme Court of Mississippi could try to claim that laws that have been in place for a while are somehow immune, so they can keep their restrictive voter laws but stop future voter driven ballot initiatives.
Because fuck democracy, right?
Ah yes, I heard she was denied because of her endorsement of Critical Race Theory, which I have been told by thousands of Conservatives on the internet is “totally racist” and bad, and yet none of them could define exactly what it is except that it’s somehow Marxist in nature.