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When Can Lawyers Be Punished for "Undignified or Discourteous" Criticism of Judges?

"Miss Manners has much to commend her within a polite and respectful society, but we are not her enforcement division."

Reason · Aug 30, 2025

Kansas Supreme Court appears unlikely to budge on state-level abortion rights after 2022 vote

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Supreme Court justices repeatedly pointed to last year’s overwhelming vote to uphold state-level abortion rights Monday, indicating they’re highly unlikely to back off their 2019 decision establishing the right to the procedure in the state.

Tribune News Service · Mar 27, 2023

Plaintiffs Challenging Kansas’ Congressional District Boundaries File Appeal To U.S. Supreme Court

On November 23, 2022, the plaintiffs in Alonzo v. Schwab filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S.

Zenger · Dec 21, 2022

Top court: Kansas Constitution allows partisan redistricting

Kansas’ highest court has declared that the state constitution does not prohibit partisan gerrymandering

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2022

Democrats feel burned by Kansas Supreme Court after years of GOP anger. Will they retaliate?

After the Kansas Supreme Court upheld a Republican-drawn congressional map that divides racially diverse Wyandotte County, Kansas State Board of Education member Melanie Haas took to Twitter to express her anger.

Tribune News Service · May 20, 2022

Kansas Supreme Court overturns district court ruling, upholds state’s congressional district map

On May 18, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned a district court’s ruling that found that the state’s enacted congressional district boundaries were unconstitutional. In a two-page order, Justice Caleb Stegall wrote for the court, “A majority of the court holds that, on the record before us, plaintiffs have not prevailed…

Ballotpedia · May 19, 2022

‘This is government action targeting other Kansans’: State high court weighs gerrymandering

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Supreme Court had sharp questions on Monday for both sides in a historic fight over whether the state constitution prohibits gerrymandering that will decide the future of the Kansas City-area congressional district held by Democrat Sharice Davids.

Tribune News Service · May 17, 2022