Supreme Court Upholds Jim Crow Voting Law, Denies Appeals

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal challenging Mississippi's Jim Crow-era voting law that disproportionately disenfranchises Black residents. The law, adopted in 1890, designates certain crimes believed to be committed more by Black people as lifelong disenfranchising crimes. The court's refusal to take the case has been criticized, with dissenting Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounting the law's history and calling for legislative action to repeal it. Mississippi's 1890 Constitution aimed to eliminate Black voting power and was followed by other southern states with their own Jim Crow constitutions. The court's decision comes a day after ruling affirmative action for race-conscious college admissions as unconstitutional.