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Sotomayor answered questions onstage at the University of Kansas Lied Center from two KU alumni, Janet and Mary Murguia.

A group of Texas churches and the IRS agreed to nix the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits nonprofits from endorsing candidates. A Trump-appointed judge said no.

Leqaa Kordia, a Muslim Palestinian woman living in New Jersey, has been in immigration custody in Texas since last March. A federal judge on Friday granted her a $100,000 bond.

The state of Oklahoma is making insufficient effort to fix a system that keeps people languishing in jail instead of getting mental health treatment.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reaffirmed a November ruling removing a block on Senate Bill 12 and denied a request by plaintiffs for a rehearing.

By pleading guilty to a single count of wire fraud, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said the nominees would bring “rare depth of professional experience” to the bench and possessed an unwavering commitment to the rule of law.

A judge ruled Senate Bill 13, passed in 2021, violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The law prevented state investments in firms it deemed as boycotting oil and gas companies.

The rulings denied state officials’ attempts to throw out or at least pause the case, allowing claims from Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, a reproductive rights advocacy group, to proceed.

Kansas lawmakers say that requiring driver's licenses to list legal status would reduce noncitizen voting — something that is exceedingly rare. One study says suspected cases happen just 0.0001% of the time.