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Apr 13, 2022

Kansas redistricting trial ended Monday. Here are four key takeaways [Kansas City Star]

Brett was one of several attorneys representing Kansas voters who brought three lawsuits, now consolidated, seeking to block implementation of congressional maps passed earlier this year as part of the...

Picture of the state of Kansas as a puzzle being put together

Apr 13, 2022

Charges of gerrymandering in Kansas could lead to a landmark ruling [WBUR, NPR Boston]

A new map of congressional districts is being challenged in Kansas.

Apr 5, 2022

Republicans face a new kind of legal challenge for cutting up Democratic strongholds in Kansas

The ACLU of Kansas is suing to have the state’s recently drawn congressional redistricting map thrown out. The organization argues Republican lawmakers drew the new districts in an attempt to dilute the...

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...