A federal judge, at least for now, has denied a request to prevent a majority-Black section of voters from electing new county judges months before the election begins. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by Robert Foster, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate and current DeSoto County supervisor, and others who claim the Legislature’s creation
Several DeSoto County residents, including former Republican gubernatorial candidate and current county Supervisor Robert Foster, have filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the Legislature’s creation of majority-black subdistricts for the state judiciary violates the Voting Rights Act. The lawsuit argues that when the Legislature redrew the state’s judicial districts, it gave DeSoto County an additional
On Friday, a group of retired judges will step off a tour bus in an upscale Michigan suburb after three days of touring cornfields, cities and coal towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They carry a message with them. In courthouses and public squares, they have commemorated the nation’s 250th anniversary with a dire warning: the