IN RE HOOKER

No. 2012-IA-00166-SCT.

87 So.3d 401 (2012)

In re Charles HOOKER, David Gatlin, Nathan Kern, Anthony McCray, Kirby Tate, Katherine Robertson, Aaron Brown, Joshua Howard, and Azikiwe Kambule.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied May 17, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Fortner , Jackson, Erik M. Lowrey , Hattiesburg, Richard Anthony Filce, Sylvia S. Owen , New Albany, Luther T. Munford , Jackson, Robert Gregg Mayer , Fred L. Banks, Jr. , Jackson, Charles Willis Pickering , John M. Colette , Jackson, Edward Blackmon, Jr. , Canton, Cynthia Ann Stewart , Aafram Yaphet Sellers , Jackson, attorneys for appellants.

Office of the Attorney General By Jim Hood , Alexander Kassoff , Meredith McCollum Aldridge , Bridgette Williams Wiggins , David K. Scott , attorneys for appellee.

EN BANC.


DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. At the outset, we wish to state that this case is not about whether the governor is above the law. He clearly is not, and any implication in the dissents, or elsewhere, that he is—or that a majority of this Court believes he is—is incorrect. This case is about whether this Supreme Court has the right, authority, and power to declare itself superior to, and above, both the other two branches of government...

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