KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The first morning of a federal court trial over the redrawing of Kansas political boundaries was mostly filled with procedural issues.
Attorneys for legislators, business leaders and voters presented evidence Tuesday to three federal judges in Kansas City, Kan.
The judges must adjust boundaries for congressional, state House and Senate and State Board of Education districts to account for population changes in the past decade.
The maps became the judges’ responsibility after the Legislature could not settle a feud among Republicans over the districts’ boundaries.
Robyn Renee Essex, a Republican precinct committee member from Olathe, filed the lawsuit earlier this month against Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the state’s chief elections official.
However, the judges are allowing 27 other individuals to participate including some lawmakers involved in the Legislature’s impasse.
