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On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit confirmed that Mississippi’s anti-sodomy law is unconstitutional, bringing the state into line with the Supreme Court’s landmark 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas. Two decades after that decision, Mississippi continues to enforce its “Unnatural Intercourse” law by requiring people convicted under it to register as sex offenders. Represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel, a group of them brought a class action suit challenging the law in 2016.
“Today’s ruling confirms what we’ve been saying for years: Mississippi can no longer cling to its homophobic, antiquated law,” said our co-counsel, Matthew Strugar. “It is unconstitutional and has been for two decades. Enough is enough.”
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