The United States Supreme Court Monday rejected an attempt to breathe new life into a draconian Kansas law requiring documentary proof of citizen for voter registration, finally closing the book on a law that has failed at federal and appellate court levels.

The ACLU of Kansas has launched a new blog aimed at elevating critical criminal justice reform issues including but not limited to expanded resources for public defenders.

“Our nation’s electoral systems have withstood record turnout, an avalanche of mail-in ballots in a pandemic, and the attacks of a president who would rather tear down democratic norms and institutions than admit he is a loser in a national election."

The ACLU of Kansas has asked the Wichita school district to rescind a disciplinary action taken against a teacher who has posted vocal opposition to the district plans to reopen public schools on social media.

Arguing that juvenile fees and fines are a regressive and racially discriminatory tax on low-income communities, a collection of civil rights and civil liberties organizations including the ACLU of Kansas, has asked the Kansas Supreme Court to immediately halt such assessments.

The overly reactive and militarized response of the Overland Park Police Department to recent, peaceful Black Lives Matter protests is cause for serious concern, the ACLU of Kansas noted in a letter to Department officials this week.

In a resounding rebuke to Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s office, a district court judge has ordered the disclosure of the full ballot report, absent social security numbers and driver’s license info, tossed from the 2018 August primary.

The ACLU of Kansas honors not only that courage and sacrifice, but also the towering civil rights legacies these men built in the face of withering violence, once they climbed back to their feet.