§ Miss. Code § 23-15-973(untitled)

Opportunities for candidates to address people during court terms;
restrictions with respect to political affiliations; penalties for violations.
It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit court to give a reasonable time and opportunity
to the candidates for the office of judge of the Supreme Court, judges of the Court of Appeals,
circuit judge and chancellor to address the people during court terms. In order to give further and
every possible emphasis to the fact that the said judicial offices are not political but are to be held
without favor and with absolute impartiality as to all persons, and because of the jurisdiction
conferred upon the courts by this chapter, the judges thereof should be as far removed as possible
from any political affiliations or obligations. It shall be unlawful for any candidate for any of the
offices mentioned in this section to align himself with any candidate or candidates for any other
office or with any political faction or any political party at any time during any primary or
general election campaign. Likewise it shall be unlawful for any candidate for any other office
nominated or to be nominated at any primary election, wherein any candidate for any of the
judicial offices in this section mentioned, is or are to be nominated, to align himself with any one
or more of the candidates for said offices or to take any part whatever in any nomination for any
one or more of said judicial offices, except to cast his individual vote. Any candidate for any
office, whether nominated with or without opposition, at any primary wherein a candidate for
any one of the judicial offices herein mentioned is to be nominated who shall deliberately,
knowingly and willfully violate the provisions of this section shall forfeit his nomination, or if
elected at the following general election by virtue of said nomination, his election shall be void.