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MCJ 2025 Legislative Agenda

MCJ would like to introduce our 2025 Legislative Agenda. As always, our legislative agenda is not just a set of priorities crafted in isolation. This agenda reflects the work we’ve done throughout the years in close collaboration with our community, through the direct services we’ve provided to individuals and families, and the issues that have been brought to us by those we serve. At the heart of our legislative priorities are the voices of community members. The insights we gain through our work guide our advocacy efforts and help us champion policies that will have a meaningful impact on the lives of all Mississippians.

This year we focus on key areas of affirmative legislative policy we will pursue, the issues that have risen to the forefront, and our goals to change policy to create positive, lasting change. Throughout the legislative session follow here to get updates on the bills we’re tracking.

MCJ and Partners Wrap Up Eight-Day Trial
over Legislative Redistricting

The Mississippi Center for Justice and its partners completed an eight-day trial challenging the under-representation of Black voters in the redistricting plan that the Mississippi legislature adopted in 2022 to elect its members. Here is a video of MCJ’s Impact Litigation Director, Rob McDuff, speaking from outside the federal courthouse yesterday.

MCJ joined forces with the ACLU, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Morgan Lewis law firm, and attorney Carroll Rhodes to represent the Mississippi State Conference NAACP and Black voters from around the state in this challenge brought under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The team presented extensive evidence that despite the Black population growth in Mississippi over recent years, the legislature failed to increase the number of majority Black election districts even though it easily could have..

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