DeSoto judicial candidate wants to be added to supervisor’s lawsuit
DeSoto County Supervisor Robert Foster filed suit alleging a judicial subdistrict created by the Mississippi Legislature is racially discriminatory against white voters and would unfairly allow a small portion of the county to elect two new judges that would have control of the entire county. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
A DeSoto County Chancery Court candidate wants to be added as a defendant in Supervisor Robert Foster’s lawsuit against the State of Mississippi.
Foster filed suit last week alleging a judicial subdistrict created by the Mississippi Legislature last year is racially discriminatory against white voters and would unfairly allow a small portion of the county to elect two new judges that would have control of the entire county.
The state Legislature gave the county new Circuit and Chancery courts judges last year but mandated those positions be elected only by a small portion of voters in the new subdistrict, most of who reside in Horn Lake.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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