A Northwest Mississippi legislator has proposed a bill that would create a new court system within Jackson’s Capitol Complex Improvement District, taking authority over cases in that part of the city away from local elected officials.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Trey Lamar, R-Senatobia, would put the power to appoint judges solely in the hands of the chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court and to appoint prosecutors solely in the hands of the attorney general.
The Capitol Complex Improvement District was created by the legislature in 2017 and stretches from Jackson State University,…
