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Influential Kansas House committee leader to step down next month
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An influential Kansas House committee leader who helped temper fellow Republicans' drive to limit what state and local officials can do during pandemics plans to give up his legislative seat next month. Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Patton announced...
Lawsuit over Kansas IDs would be a 'morass' if transgender people intervene, attorney general says
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Allowing transgender Kansas residents to intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to force the state to list the sex they were assigned at birth on their driver's licenses would create a legal “morass,” the state's Republican attorney general argued in a new court filing. ...
Capitol Federal: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Capitol Federal Financial Inc. (CFFN) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $8.3 million. The Topeka, Kansas-based company said it had net income of 6 cents per share. The holding company for Capitol Federal...
Kansas' attorney general wants to keep trans people from intervening in his lawsuit over state IDs
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general in Kansas is working to keep transgender people from intervening in his state-court lawsuit against changing the sex listings on their state driver's licenses. His efforts already will block further changes until at least November. ...
Trans people's rush to alter their Kansas licenses created a 'safety concern,' a judge says
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The nearly 200 transgender people who rushed in recent weeks to change the sex listings on their driver's licenses created an immediate “public safety concern,” a state-court judge declared Wednesday in keeping in place a ban on those changes. The state...
Kansas lawmakers botched the drafting of a new anti-trans law, agency attorney says
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators botched the drafting of a new law aimed at preventing transgender people from changing how their sex is listed on their driver's licenses, a state agency's lawyer argued in a court filing made public Tuesday. The attorney in Democratic Gov....
Kansas attorney general sues to prevent transgender people from changing driver's licenses
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to force the state to be among a few that prohibit transgender people from changing their sex on their driver's licenses and to repudiate the Democratic governor, who continues to allow such changes despite a new anti-trans...
