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Mississippi seems to be the most hellish of the states. We constantly mock a few of them, but Mississippi is just really sad.
Courts across Mississippi have ignored a broader rule regarding public defense, the Daily Journal, The Marshall Project and ProPublica have found. That rule, part of a 2017 push to standardize how courts across the state operate, requires judges to send to the Supreme Court their policy on how they fulfill their constitutional obligation to provide lawyers for poor criminal defendants. Just one circuit court district, covering three rural counties in southwest Mississippi, has complied.
Rule of law, right there /s
Gosh, sounds like maybe we need a federal law
I hear you, but federal law doesn’t seem to matter in the US for some reason (I’m Canadian, so I really don’t understand this). It’s all about the law in each state, federal law be damned
That's how the courts work, though. A higher court won't weigh in unless the case is appealed from a lower court. Also, the SC's job isn't to enforce their rulings.
Supreme Courts lay out procedural rules for lower courts all the time, they routinely review those courts conduct to see if those rules are being followed, and they're fully able to find people in contempt of court if those rules aren't being followed. The state's legislature or the federal DOJ could certainly get involved here to try to hold these lower courts accountable as well, but the notion that the Supreme Court is powerless here is just a bullshit dodge from someone who doesn't want to do their job properly because he knows it will upset powerful people.
their Supreme Court Justices really said, "We can't do anything unless those people without lawyers file a lawsuit,"
Well yeah. That's generally how this works. There has to be a lawsuit for the court to be involved. It's why things like the ACLU exist. To file those lawsuits on behalf of people whose civil liberties are being violated.