The Legislature has overridden the Governor’s veto on one of the most sweeping and intrusive anti-trans bills in the nation, SB 244.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision Thursday in Shaw v. Jones, affirming a district court’s finding that the Kansas Highway Patrol violated drivers’ constitutional rights.

“This bill is about forcing people into the wrong bathrooms and opening up all Kansans to scrutiny and gender policing by strangers."

A new poll finds that 70% of Kansas voters across party lines are concerned about politicians trying to undermine the votes of American citizens and that 71% want officials to prioritize protecting democracy.

Four Kansans have brought a new lawsuit in the federal district court over the unlimited, harsher punishment of poor defendants who cannot pay their restitution compared to the treatment of defendants who have the ability to pay.

A week later, thirteen local organizations are still waiting for a response to their letter urging Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett to push his office to reduce the number of individuals impacted by pretrial detention.

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 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.

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.