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News  |  Russ Latino  • 
November 24, 2024

Medicaid expansion could become much more expensive under second Trump White House

Among the proposals being floated by Trump allies to rein in federal costs for Medicaid are a rollback of the enhanced federal match for people in the expansion population and a move to state block grants.
News  |  Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press  • 
November 22, 2024

Attorneys want the US Supreme Court to say Mississippi’s felony voting ban is cruel and unusual

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft, attorneys say in new court papers. Most of the people affected are disenfranchised for life because the state provides few options for restoring ballot…