CASE SUMMARY
On April 25, 2022, Kansas’s Attorney General filed a petition with the Kansas Supreme Court pursuant to the Kansas Constitution’s mandatory judicial review of the validity of enacted legislative redistricting plans. The Attorney General filed the Legislature’s enacted plans and a memorandum in support of their legality and sought a judicial declaration the maps were valid.
- On May 18, 2022, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the legislative plans as constitutional and released its full opinion on June 21, 2022.
CASE LIBRARY
Kansas Supreme Court - No. 125083
- Petition to Determine the Validity of Substitute for Senate Bill 563 Provisions Reapportioning State Legislative Districts - 4/25/22
- Memorandum in Support of Petition to Determine the Validity of Substitute for Senate Bill 563 Provisions Reapportioning State Legislative Districts - 4/25/22
- Scheduling Order - 4/25/22
- Clarifying Order - 4/26/22
- Motion to Intervene - 4/29/22
- Order - 5/4/22
- Brief of Senator Thomas Holland in Support of Request to Find Senate Districts 3 and 9 Invalid - 5/4/22
- Brief of Petitioner in Response to Brief of Intervenor Senator Thomas Holland - 5/10/22
- Petitioner's Response to Statements of Interested Persons - 5/12/22
- Order - 5/18/22
- Opinion - 6/21/22