Fighting for Civil Liberties and Defending Freedom in the Free State

Rather than accepting the decisions of the two highest courts in our state, Mr. Kobach is resorting to backroom attempts to change the law and shut the courts out of our government so he can have full, unchecked power.

The ACLU of Kansas will host a Justice Summit to highlight the systemic injustice of the money bail system and disseminate key findings from its recent report, The Price of Freedom: Bail in Sedgwick County.

The Kansas Supreme Court this week denied Attorney General Kris Kobach’s request to keep in place a district court order preventing transgender Kansans from getting driver’s licenses with accurate gender markers. Earlier this year, the Kansas Court of Appeals had issued a decision protecting transgender Kansans’ rights, which the attorney general had appealed. This week’s denial of that appeal means that the decision can go into effect Monday, October 6.