The Mississippi House has passed a controversial bill that would form a court system of unelected judges and prosecutors to preside over part of the majority-Black city of Jackson.
The bill would expand the city's capitol complex improvement district, which "was created by the Mississippi Legislature to establish regular funding and administration of infrastructure projects within a defined area of the city of Jackson," according to city documents.
The state's supreme court chief justice, the AG, the state public defender and the public safety commissioner currently in office are white. Mississippi House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Trey Lamar speaks in the Mississippi House chamber in Jackson, Miss., Nov. 2, 2022."The people who voted for this bill are trying to make Jackson safer, that's all they're interested in and if you're not committing crimes in Jackson, you really don't have anything to worry about," said Lamar.
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