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January 14, 2012

YP Flash: Dem Sen. Jackson (SD 11) seeks to add “knowingly” and “willfully” to statutory rape law

A Democratic state Senator has submitted a bill that would essentially water down the crime of statutory rape. Sen. Robert Jackson (SD 11) is listed as the author of SB 2091 that has the stated purpose of being: “AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-3-65, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE KNOWLEDGE AND WILLFULNESS IN ORDER…
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January 14, 2012

OPINION – Haley Barbour Was Right to Issue Those Pardons

Haley Barbour Was Right to Issue Those Pardons Back in the 1990s, I wrote many speeches for Gov. Haley Barbour when he was the head of the Republican National Committee. Now he’s finishing his second term as governor of Mississippi and had a lot of people urging him to run for president this year. When…