Court says it’s ending dispute over Mississippi airport board but city officials disagree

Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court says it is ending a dispute over whether the state or the city will control the airport board in Mississippi’s capital of Jackson. The ruling Tuesday could clear the way for a board appointed mostly by the state. But Jackson officials say they still believe an airport takeover is unconstitutional. A lawsuit was filed 2016 in response to a law creating a nine-person regional board for Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport. That the new group would replace a five-member board appointed by the city. Critics of a state board said white suburban Republicans were trying to steal an asset controlled by Democratic officials in the majority-Black city.