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Shawnee Mission Post If the ruling stands, local governments would have have more power to enact rules in response to a pandemic. A Johnson County judge has ruled that a law passed this spring to curtail local governments’ emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic is unconstitutional. In the same ruling, Judge David Hauber sided with the Shawnee Mission School District in dismissing two parents’ complaints over not being given public hearings under the law to challenge the district’s...

Kansas law allowing suits against local COVID rules unconstitutional, JoCo judge rules Katie Bernard, The Kansas City Star Jul. 15—TOPEKA — Expansive changes to Kansas emergency management laws, which allow citizens to sue over public health measures, are unconstitutional and promote "the equivalent of legal anarchy," a Johnson County judge said in a scathing ruling Thursday. As COVID-19 cases rise again, driven by the highly contagious delta variant, the ruling restores, fo...

Respond to a major crisis like this so that is a national security threat, national security issue, not just a public health crisis. im concerned when we dont have faith in public health officials and political leadership, they are responding appropriately and that is why state attorneys general, chief legal officers, we have a right to demand on behalf of our citizens information from the federal authorities of what china and other stakeholders new and when they knew it so that defend states an...

AG Schmidt: Catalytic Converters Should Be Covered Under Scrap Metal Theft Reduction Act Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued a press release stating that catalytic converters should be covered by the Scrap Metal Theft Reduction Act, and any transactions where they’re purchased by scrap metal dealers are regulated. Therefore, they must be reported to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation database. The KBI’s database was designed to assist law enforcement in the prevention such thefts b...

On February 23, 1945, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi. It was taken down, and a second flag was raised. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured this second flag-raising. Now part of U.S. Navy records, it is one of the most famous war photographs in U.S. history. US Marines raise a second flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. (Image: National Archives and Records Administration, WC 1221.) 23 February Marines Raise t...

Posted By: Jacob Weston February 23, 2021 @ 11:20 am Local News, News Kansas’ Attorney General and six lawmakers are proposing an amendment to the Kansas Constitution. Their goal is make sure there is enough legislative oversight of unelected officials. As it stands now, rules and regulations with the force of law can be put in place, and elected officials have no way of repealing or suspending the rules. Attorney Gener...