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The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday rejected Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s request to dismiss lawsuits filed in Wyandotte and Douglas counties over redrawn congressional districts. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Loud Light filed separate lawsuits to stop the gerrymandered map.

The census defines a prisoner’s home address as the prison they are held at, but there is some effort to change that.

“We’re obviously happy with this ruling,” said ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Micah Kubic. “Still, there’s a lot of work yet ahead of us in defending democracy and protecting the rights of Kansans, especially the voters of Wyandotte County, Johnson County, and Lawrence.”

Democrats, a civil rights group and a national elections watchdog filed two lawsuits Monday against Kansas officials over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state’s only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area district that she carries by wide margins…

The Kansas Debt Free Justice Coalition, of which the ACLU of Kansas is a member, testified to advocate for the elimination of fines and fees in the juvenile justice system.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Loud Light filed two separate lawsuits Monday arguing the congressional map endorsed by a GOP supermajority in the Legislature intentionally violates constitutional rights of Democrats and communities of color.

A legal challenge filed Monday by the ACLU and partners to the controversial congressional redistricting plan passed by the Kansas Legislature calls it an attempt to dilute the voices of minority voters and requests that a Wyandotte County judge to strike it down.

The ACLU of Kansas and Campaign Legal Center filed a lawsuit to block the state’s new congressional map, alleging that its redrawn district boundaries are a racial and partisan gerrymander.