Supreme Court rejects challenge to a constitutional amendment adopted by the state of Mississippi during the racist Jim Crow era aimed at preventing Black people from voting.
If the court viewed affirmative action as race discrimination, then the Mississippi measure must be seen similarly, Jackson said.
The specific aim of the amendment was to disproportionately prevent Black people from voting by removing voting rights from felons convicted of what were thought to be"Black crimes" and declining to do the same for"white crimes." Roy Harness and Kamal Karriem, two Black men whose voting rights were removed after they were convicted of forgery and embezzlement, respectively, brought the legal challenge in 2017. They say Section 241 violates the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which requires that the law applies equally to everyone, and the 15th Amendment, which prohibits the denial of the right to vote on the basis of race.
In asking the Supreme Court to weigh in, Harness and Kariem's lawyers point to the fact that the court in 1985 struck down a similar measure that was enacted in Alabama in 1901.
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