District Attorney Colom: “As a prosecutor and seventh-generation Mississippian, I know the right to vote in this state was won at a cost, and I know Mississippians have never backed down from a fight worth having”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 29, 2026

Columbus, MS — Today, District Attorney and U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom issued the following statement after the United States Supreme Court released its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, significantly weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the legal protections that have safeguarded the right to vote for sixty years: 

“Sixty years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer told America that Mississippians were tired of being denied the right to vote. The Voting Rights Act answered her, and today’s Supreme Court ruling makes one of America’s most important civil rights statutes significantly harder to enforce.

“As a prosecutor and seventh-generation Mississippian, I know the right to vote in this state was won at a cost, and I know Mississippians have never backed down from a fight worth having. The urgency of this moment is real, but so is the resolve of the people I’ve spent my life serving. 

“We’ve been here before, and we know what to do.”

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