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If my name were Holland, I would not be throwing darts at things with foreign names.

Just sayin’.

Here’s the full and complete text of House Bill 150, whose sponsor is representative Holland

HOUSE BILL NO. 150

1     AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT FOR ALL OFFICIAL PURPOSES WITHIN THE

2     STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE BODY OF WATER LOCATED DIRECTLY SOUTH [...]

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The Mississippi Supreme Court just stayed the Pardons Case and set en banc hearing for 2/9

Briefs are to be filed by February 7th, en banc argument (that is, before the entire court) on February 9th, and the lower court proceeding before Judge Green is stayed.

I have never heard of an en banc argument set just over a week out!

Tom Fortner seems to have got their attention.

Update:

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Chris Matthews: The Republican Primaries are about to be a Revenge Tragedy

One of the more riveting political opinion pieces I’ve seen lately.

He thinks there’s going to be blood on the stage.

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A look at the AG’s pleadings in the pardons case

Here are the complaint, motion for a temporary restraining order, and the order granting the TRO in the pardons case, from Attorney General Hood’s webpage.

I would have thought that, to get relief– which requires showing likelihood of success– the attorney general would have had to show that a specific defendant got a pardon and he didn’t advertise [...]

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The New York Times looks inside the Barbour pardons

“Maggi and I wanted to begin by thanking you and Marsha for a lovely and special lunch at the Mansion last Tuesday,” began a letter to the governor by the family friend of Doug Hindman, one pardon applicant. “It was very interesting to see the historical quilt upstairs.”

“Please tell Uncle Haley that one [...]

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How much does Bob Dole detest Newt Gingrich?

Well, he didn’t like him when he was in Congress.

When Gingrich was speaker of the House, Bob Dole was the Senate majority leader. And so Dole spent a lot of time listening to the speaker’s proposals. “Gingrich’s staff has these five file cabinets, four big ones and this little tiny one,” he told [...]

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Kingfish moves the pardon story along

Kingfish earlier posted a couple of times about a Hinds County pardon case involving Douglas Hindman, who was caught in a TV-show sponsored sting involving investigators posing as early-teen girls and setting up meetings with guys seeking sex.  Now he’s pushing that along, by looking at the other cases that arose out of the [...]

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AP reports that pardon files don’t exist

The leded begins “pardon files are missing” but reading the article carefully, I think what it says is “The state responded to a public records request for pardon files by saying there aren’t any.”   Here’s Holbrook Mohr’s story:

Pardon files are missing or don’t exist for four convicted killers and another man who [...]

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Some notes on the pardon TRO hearing and local news coverage

The Clarion Ledger story does not add much.  It does note that the five pardonees still being held by MDOC have filed separate proceedings seeking release.  Even though they are not in court in Jackson– their names were added yesterday during the hearing and so at that point they had no formal notice of [...]

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Twitter and the Pardons Hearing

Cottonmouth blog from the account @cottonmouthMS and Kingfish at Jackson Jambalaya, as @kingfish1935 are both doing live Twitter feed from the pardons hearing in Jackson, which has just begun.

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