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May 24, 2012

Bill Minor (bless his heart) calls redistricting plan ‘Dennymandered’

Redistricting plan named ‘Dennymandered’ Though crudely handled, the GOP plan was cleverly drawn by making black districts blacker, giving the map on paper an appearance of meeting minority requirements of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The dirty little secret behind their over-populating black majority districts, is to wipe out at least a half dozen rural…
Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 24, 2012

Dickie Scruggs’s legal hail mary denied – Judge Davidson nixes the Scruggs 2255 motion

With a 48 page opinion, Judge Glen Davidson put to rest any hope that Dickie Scruggs will get out of jail. Davidson was tough on Joey Langston, but didn’t tread too heavily on Scruggs’s brother in law, former Senator Trent Lott, who testified at Scruggs’s evidentiary hearing. NMC also has analysis. The most newsworthy thing…