Update: Hearing on TRO Friday at 1:30 PM. A separate hearing on whether Chief Justice Randolph enjoys qualified immunity will be held at 9:30 AM Friday.
The NAACP asked U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate to stop the appointment of four special Hinds County circuit judges Friday. A hearing telephonic conference is being held right now on the matter.
The organization made the request in a motion for a temporary restraining order filed Friday. The appointments were created under HB #1020. Governor Tate Reeves signed the bill on April 23. The law requires Chief Justice Mike Randolph to appoint four special circuit judges by May 8. The terms for the special judges expire on December 31, 2026.
The NAACP took strong exception with the lack of a Hinds County residency requirement for the special judges. Thus the complaint argues appointing such judges deprives Hinds County residents of the rights "available" to the voters of all other counties in Mississippi.
The complaint argues it will be much easier to block the appointments now then declare them null and void at a later date when the judges in question have active caseloads.
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The NAACP prefers that Jackson retains and improves upon its position as
MURDER CAPITOLOF AMERICA
What a fine group of liberal left wing democrat lawyers-
NAACP lawyers in incensed they didn’t draw “ I’m here for my race” Reeves.
That lawyer Carol Browner was the head of EPA under Clinton, she’s also on the board of Bunge, Inc. I always thought Bunge was a conservative agricultural behemoth, guess I was wrong.
First, HB 1020 was prompted by a lack of leadership in Jackson, particularly law enforcement.
Second, I applaud efforts to fix a terrible situation.
Third, my hunch is the plaintiffs are correct. If anyone has examined the law, please weigh in on this.
RMQ
Apparently some people are content with or actually enjoy having an astronomically high crime rate in their area.
Judge Wingate will rule by June 1.
Of 2024.
Black residents of Jackson are daily denied normal safety to pursue a peaceful existence due to extreme and violent crime flourishing to their detriment, owing to incompetent leadership of the mayor and his administration and owing to a backlogged justice system that cannot fix itself.
So forego the District but protect state employees as they are obligated to work in a criminally infested sewer often times without infrastructure resources that should be expected in a municipality. Activate the national guard and allow them to provide the security that CoJ can’t to those employees who commute from a safe, wholesome environment into the quagmires of CoJ where life is cheap. Militarize unsafe areas where our citizens are expected to work to “ serve the people”…..
So forego the District but protect state employees as they are obligated to work in a criminally infested sewer often times without infrastructure resources that should be expected in a municipality. Activate the national guard and allow them to provide the security that CoJ can’t to those employees who commute from a safe, wholesome environment into the quagmires of CoJ where life is cheap. Militarize unsafe areas where our citizens are expected to work to “ serve the people”…..
THESE MORONS ARE ABSOLUTELY BEYOND BELIEF. They should be saying thank you thank you thank you. It is their people being slaughtered.
Kind of hard to object to appointed judges, when this has been a practice statewide for years. Quick question, have all of the previously appointed judges been residents of Hinds County?
No worries, guys. It will take Wingate at least a year to rule on this. Hopefully, this will give CCID cops time to push the needle back towards safety first.
And ya'll brainheads didn't catch that Rhodes is on the recently filed Dennis 3 suit......
I can't believe the pushback on this from the same community this would help. What suggestions do they propose....DERRICK?
Supreme Court should pull all the “special judges”. Special judges have been assigned to Hinds for more than a decade and it just gets worse. Why don’t the surrounding counties that are just as large get special judges? Yet typical the legislature just throws more money at these judges that do nothing. Nobody else seems to have this backlog of cases. Why isn’t success rewarded and failure reprimanded
Hinds County has a population of 222,000 and 4 circuit court judges and cannot keep up.
Madison/Rankin has a population of 259,000 and 3 circuit court judges and manages to keep up.
Interesting.
Hinds County Judges work with "all deliberate speed"
"The NAACP took strong exception with the lack of a Hinds County residency requirement for the special judges. Thus the complaint argues appointing such judges deprives Hinds County residents of the rights "available" to the voters of all other counties in Mississippi."
Am I wrong, but doesn't Judge Carlos the Clown serve as a municipal judge (appointed) in several Delta Counties where he does not reside? Seems like he, along with several other members/supports of the NAACP have been appointed to be inferior court judges across the Delta.
But I guess to Derrick and his grifting crew, those details don't matter, because there the folks running those cities are providing positions/money to their members.
This whole lawsuit by NAACP, just like the other one from activist 'concerned citizens' is nothing but lawyer manure - write enough, hope to get a good judge, and therefore make more money through the eventual failure at the appealate courts.
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