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On Friday, Feb. 18, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt (R) filed a petition in the Kansas Supreme Court asking it to block two lawsuits challenging the state’s new congressional districts.
A group of Kansas voters filed a lawsuit in state court against Kansas’ new congressional map, the second to be filed today.
On Feb. 14, a lawsuit was filed in state court challenging Kansas’ new congressional map.
Today, a federal court allowed a case against a new Kansas voter suppression law to proceed.
On Friday, Oct. 1, civil and voting rights organizations announced that they had reached an agreement with Kansas to expand voter registration opportunities at two statewide agencies.
On Tuesday, the district attorney for Kansas’ Douglas County, Suzanne Valdez, announced that her office would not prosecute violations of new voter suppression laws that the Republican Legislature passed in May.
The League of Women Voters of Kansas and other voting rights groups announced on Thursday that they are halting their voter registration drives in order to comply with new voter suppression laws in the state.
On June 2, voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit against the Kansas secretary of state and attorney general after the state’s Republican Legislature overrode the governor’s veto to enact a new voter suppression law last month.
Voting rights groups sued Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab (R) and Attorney General Derek Schmidt (R) on Tuesday after the state’s Republican Legislature overrode the governor’s veto to enact two new voter suppression laws last month.
Two voter suppression bills became law in Kansas on Monday after the Republican Legislature overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D) veto.