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March 7, 2012

Clemency-limit bills die in committees

Clemency-limit bills die in committees In the uproar over former Gov. Haley Barbour’s pardons of nearly 200 convicts as he left office, state lawmakers filed numerous bills that would allow voters to change the state Constitution and limit gubernatorial clemency power. But those measures all died with a Tuesday-night deadline to clear committee, with House…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 7, 2012

Abortion, immigration bills survive committees

Abortion, immigration bills survive committees Mississippi lawmakers scrambled Tuesday to meet their first major deadline of the 2012 session, thinning out the list of bills and constitutional amendments they’ll consider during the next two months. Among the proposals that died are constitutional amendments that would’ve limited the governor’s pardon power, defined life as beginning at…