(WASHINGTON D.C., 8/25/2022) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today criticized a ruling by U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a lower court ruling keeping in place a Jim Crow provision of the 1890 Mississippi Constitution designed to keep African-Americans from voting.
SEE: 5th Circuit upholds Jim Crow-era law written to keep Black Mississippians from voting
In a statement, CAIR Trial Attorney Justin Sadowsky said:
“It is indisputable that Mississippi enacted its felony disenfranchisement regime in 1890 in a pique of racism for the specific purpose of disenfranchising black voters. It is also indisputable—as the bipartisan group of dissenters in the case all make clear—that, other than making technical revisions to the scope of felony disenfranchisement, Mississippi has never since considered whether its racist system of felony disenfranchisement should be maintained for non-racist or any other reason.
“The majority’s willingness to find that technical amendments to Mississippi’s felony disenfranchisement law cleansed it of its racist motivation is contrary to law, and we hope the Supreme Court will reverse this apologia for racism.”
He said CAIR and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and all other forms of bigotry.
CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
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