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The ACLU claimed that the Kansas Two Step is part of a strategy to get drivers to talk to them without a lawyer present. On Monday, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the class action suit to continue, and the case will be tried in February in Wichita.

“If you are seeing racial disparities in one aspect of policing,” Brett said, “you will likely find those same disparities in other aspects of policing, if you only care to look.”

Data compiled from 2011 to 2019 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas shows more than 4,000 people arrested or removed by ICE during that time, many of whom have not been convicted of a crime.

The ACLU of Kansas and the National Police Accountability Project are suing Kansas over delays in mental health evaluations at Larned State Hospital. The class action lawsuit says individuals who face criminal charges are waiting for as long as 13 months behind bars for an evaluation.

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the new congressional map approved by the Republican-led Legislature is constitutional. The ACLU of Kansas, one of the plaintiffs in the case, called the ruling a “stunning blow.”

The leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the landmark case would see a complete ban on abortion in Missouri and offer Kansas legislators the opportunity to do the same.

The American Civil Liberties Union settled a lawsuit filed five years ago against prosecutors in Montgomery County for disproportionately seeking harsh sentences for defendants posing nominal risk to the public by declining to make available diversion program alternatives required under Kansas law.

Brett was one of several attorneys representing Kansas voters who brought three lawsuits, now consolidated, seeking to block implementation of congressional maps passed earlier this year as part of the decennial redistricting process.

A new map of congressional districts is being challenged in Kansas.