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Apr 4, 2022

‘Nerves and adrenalin’ as Kansas congressional redistricting trial begins

At issue: A map known as Ad Astra 2 splits the Kansas City metro area along Interstate 70, separating the heavily Democratic northern part of Wyandotte County from Johnson County and the 3rd District, and...

A map produced by Republicans in the House and Senate would place Lawrence in the 1st District, which stretches to the Colorado border, and split Wyandotte County between 2nd and 3rd districts. (Submitted)

Apr 1, 2022

In Kansas, a ‘mountain of evidence’ promised to prove gerrymandering of congressional map

Jowei Chen, a political science professor at the University of Michigan, had a computer draw 1,000 versions of Kansas congressional maps, using non-partisan and traditional guidelines. The map Kansas...

Mar 9, 2022

Bills pending in Kansas Legislature would suppress votes and threaten democracy itself

Honest arbiters can disagree on subjects like funding public schools. Recent efforts here and nationwide to suppress the vote of political opponents, however, don’t fall under the benign category of policy...

Mar 4, 2022

Kansas Supreme Court rejects AG’s request to dismiss redistricting lawsuits in state courts

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...

Connie Brown Collins, a Kansas City, Kansas, resident, holds her notes during a news conference to condemn the GOP-drawn congressional map on Jan. 24, 2022, at the Statehouse in Topeka. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

Mar 4, 2022

Kansas prisoners can’t vote, but some critics say they are gerrymandered anyway

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

TOPEKA, Kansas — When a man from Wichita lands in a prison in Lansing, Kansas,...

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

TOPEKA, Kansas — When a man from Wichita lands in a prison in Lansing, Kansas,...

Barbed wire fence with prison in background

Mar 4, 2022

State Supreme Court rules redistricting lawsuit can continue

“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,...