Aye, the pirates of the Mississippi Legislature are making their usual motion: Jargon explained

Aye, the pirates of the Mississippi Legislature are making their usual motion: Jargon explained

The 140th Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature is now under way, and as lawmakers argue over how to spend $7 billion of your dollars, it can be hard for the layperson to understand all the legislative jargon, mangled Latin…

Aye, the pirates of the Mississippi Legislature are making their usual motion: Jargon explained - Mississippi Today

The 140th Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature is now under way, and as lawmakers argue over how to spend $7 billion of your dollars, it can be hard for the layperson to understand all the legislative jargon, mangled Latin terms and rules and definitions. Scores of lawyers have worked for decades to make legislative rules and jargon confusing. If it weren’t, we might not need scores of lawyers. For instance, state government doesn’t bo…