Mississippi

Mississippi: Cochran Puts Off Re-Election Decision

While several senators have already announced retirement plans ahead of the 2014 cycle, Sen. Thad Cochran said he’s putting off his decision until “the end of the year or the beginning of the next year.”…

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Feds deny Mississippi plan for state-run health exchange, citing divisions

Federal health officials have denied Mississippi’s request to set up a state-run health exchange under President Obama’s health care law, settling an unusual political dispute in which the Republican governor overruled the state’s own insurance…

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Mississippi bill would nullify federal laws

JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi defied the union during the Civil War and civil rights era, and at least two lawmakers think it is time to do so again.
Republican state Reps. Gary Chism and Jeff…

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Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic sues over new law

By Emily Le Coz
TUPELO, Miss., June 27 (Reuters) – The lone abortion facility in Mississippi asked a federal court on Wednesday to block a new state law that will require doctors who perform the…

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Mississippi poised to tighten abortion regulations, could close last clinic

From FoxNews.com
Mississippi GOP Gov. Phil Bryant is poised to sign legislation that would tighten abortion regulations and could close the state’s only abortion clinic.
The state legislature bill sent Thursday to Bryant requires doctors…

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Poll: Obama’s a Muslim to many GOP voters in Alabama, Mississippi

By David MeeksReporting from Washington— After years of battling false claims and viral emails alleging that he is a Muslim, President Obama hasn’t gotten far among Republican voters in Alabama and Mississippi – about half still…

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Candidates spar before key Miss., Ala. primaries

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press – 10 minutes ago
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Sunday nudged rival Newt Gingrich to step aside, arguing a head-to-head contest between himself and Mitt Romney…

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Mississippi court upholds Barbour pardons

JACKSON, Miss. –  The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the pardons issued by former Gov. Haley Barbour during his final days in office, including those of four convicted killers and a robber who had worked at the Governor’s…

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New round of immigration battles set in the South

By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
The Deep South, already the nation’s hottest illegal immigration battleground, will see more action in the coming days, with Mississippi considering an Alabama-style immigration crackdown bill and a federal…

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Barbour defends controversial pardons as based on the Christian belief in forgiveness

From FOXNews.com
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Friday he’s “very comfortable” with his decision to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people, including convicted killers, in his last days in office,…

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Mississippi judge blocks release of 21 inmates given pardons by Gov. Barbour

Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. –  A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked the release of 21 inmates who’d been given pardons or medical release by Republican Haley Barbour in one of his final acts as governor.…

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Loss steels resolve in ‘personhood’ movement

By Cheryl Wetzstein-The Washington Times
The Nov. 8 defeat of the “personhood” amendment in Mississippi is galvanizing supporters to have a do-over in the state and also push measures in Colorado, Virginia and at least…

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Group ponders next move after abortion-banning measure fails in Mississippi

By RICHARD FAUSSET - Los Angeles Times
ATLANTA - Now that Mississippi voters, among the most conservative in the nation, firmly defeated the abortion-banning amendment known as Initiative 26, a broader debate has broken out about whether the…

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