Rickey W. Thompson v. Lee County Democratic Party Executive Committee

KITCHENS, JUSTICE,

DISSENTING:

¶25/Because I would hold that Ricky W. Thompson was not prohibited from running for the next term of office of Justice Court Judge for District 4 in Lee *1045County by virtue of his having been removed from a previous term of that office by this Court, I respectfully dissent.

¶26. The majority takes the position that “the phrase ‘remove from office’ found in [Article 6,] Section 177A[,] of the Mississippi Constitution necessarily means a permanent separation from office, such that an individual judge removed from office remains ineligible to return to it.” Maj. Op. ¶21.…