A special session of the legislature on Wednesday will address an incentive package for a $2.5 billion aluminum mill development project in Lowndes County, according to multiple sources.
The right to petition the government is a right enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, but its roots go much further back than that – to English law of the 17th century. Although Mississippi’s Supreme Court has callously denied that right at the state level since 2021, that right remains at the local level.
“It’s all about who can get people out to vote,” said Ward 2 Councilman Joseph Mickens. “When (Republicans) come out with stuff like that, it’s going to motivate the base.”