(Pr)Ice Gouging
The city of Mulberry, Kansas, accuses BP Energy of trying to profiteer from the recent wicked winter weather by instituting excessive price hikes for energy during the emergency.
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Kansas
Convictions of Militia Members Who Plotted to Bomb Apartments of Muslim Immigrants Upheld
The three men — all members of the so-called “Kansas Security Force” — claimed they were entrapped by the FBI and an undercover informant.
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Kansas Ag-Gag Law Debated at 10th Circuit
All parties agree the importance of agriculture in Kansas was the driving force behind a law barring subterfuge by people seeking to throw back the curtains on conditions at animal processing plants.
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Crying Fowl
The Audubon of Kansas sued the Trump administration to do fulfill its commitment to a wildlife refuge, where water rights are draining the Rattlesnake Creek sub-basin and making it difficult for threatened and endangered birds to survive.
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Black Ex-Cop Says Kansas Officer Ran Him Over on Purpose
A Black former police detective who suffered severe injuries when a sheriff’s deputy “intentionally swerved” at him and ran him over with a truck sued the officer for damages in Kansas federal court.
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10th Circuit Asked to Revive Case Against Officer Who Used Back Door
A Kansas man asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to reinstate his Fourth Amendment claim against a code enforcement officer who walked into his backyard looking for him.
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Judge Won’t Reinstate Block of 5th Federal Execution
The Trump administration can carry out its fifth federal execution of the summer after the federal judge who earlier this week granted the inmate an injunction reconsidered such relief Friday.
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Kansas Sues Interior Department to Block Native American Casino
The State of Kansas asked a federal court Monday to set aside a U.S. Department of Interior decision that allows the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma to develop a casino in the Wichita suburb of Park City.
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Trump Allies Trail Behind in Kansas Primary
Two Republican candidates who have tied themselves to President Donald Trump find themselves trailing establishment candidates in early returns from the Kansas primary.
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Drama and Intrigue Greet Voters in Kansas GOP Primary
Two races to watch in the Kansas primary election happening Tuesday highlight the Republican Party’s desire to harness intense but limited enthusiasm for far-right fringe political personalities while nominating institutionalist candidates who are seen as more electable in November.
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Kansas Federal Court Pick Defends Work in Support of Voter-ID Laws
Up for a seat on a federal court in the state, the solicitor general of Kansas defended his involvement Wednesday in cases taking conservative positions on funding for Planned Parenthood, voter ID laws and other contentious legal issues.
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Kansas Congressman Faces Felony Charges Related to 2019 Election
Mere weeks before he faces voters in a hotly contested GOP primary, freshman Congressman Steve Watkins of Kansas faces three felony charges after a local newspaper discovered that he listed the location of a UPS Store as his home address on voter registration forms.
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Republican Party Boss Equates Mask-Wearing to Holocaust
A Kansas county Republican Party chairman who owns a weekly newspaper apologized Sunday for a cartoon posted on the paper’s Facebook page that equated the Democratic governor’s coronavirus-inspired order for people to wear masks in public with the mass murder of Jews by Nazis during the Holocaust.
Read morePolice Killing
A federal judge denied in part a motion for summary judgment from Wichita, Kansas, whose police officer shot a resident to death after a crank 911 call claiming there was a hostage in the house.
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High Court Spurns Case Over Reckless Threats, Irking Thomas
Justice Clarence Thomas called out his colleagues Monday for turning down a case where threat convictions were overturned because they lacked an intent to intimidate.
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Kansas Governor Vetoes Bill Limiting Her Covid Emergency Powers
Democratic Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have limited her authority to respond to the Covid-19 emergency.
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Kansas Voter ID Law Struck Down by 10th Circuit
Kansas failed Wednesday to resuscitate a proof-of-citizenship law that the 10th Circuit said “undisputedly has disenfranchised approximately 30,000 would-be Kansas voters.”
Read moreKansas Governor Resolves Covid-19 Suit With Churches
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and two churches who sued her for banning religious services of more than 10 people have struck a deal to halt the lawsuit, she announced Saturday evening.
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Kansas Supreme Court Rules Legislative Council Can’t Overturn Governor’s Religious Service Ban
In an expedited lawsuit brought by Democratic Governor Laura Kelly, the Kansas Supreme Court heard oral arguments via video conference Saturday on whether state lawmakers had the authority to overturn an executive order barring religious services of more than 10 people amid the coronavirus epidemic.
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