The Topeka -a Kansas Reproduction Rights Advocacy Group, backed by a Washington law firm, has excluded government officials for a new law prohibiting financial contributions from “foreigners” to support or contradict constitutional modifications.
The team, Kansans for constitutional freedom, argued in a complaint filed with the Federal Court on Friday that the Body of the House 2106, which voted on the state legislator in April and will be in force on July 1, is wide, unclear and unconstitutional. The group said the bill suspends its ability to support or against future constitutional amendments. The Kansans for constitutional freedom and its donors have received contributions from foreign nationals, the lawsuit said.
The complaint brought a link between HB 2106 and the opposition to the 2022 voting measure that sought to limit reproductive rights. Voters rejected the proposed constitutional modification with a margin of 59-41.
“Instead of accepting that the overwhelming majority of Kansa’s voters rejected the amendment of 2022 to its substance, the rivals of abortions accused the” external influence “for their failure in the electoral box,” the complaint said. with the constitutional initiatives of Kansas’ vote. “
The Kansans on Constitutional Freedom was the main opposition engine on the amendment of 2022, spending more than $ 11 million on a government campaign that encourages voters. In the lawsuit, the Agency said it intends to support or against constitutional modifications in the future.
The lawsuit reports an impending constitutional modification that will appear in voters in August 2026 that seeks to elect the judges of the Supreme Court of Kansas by popular vote, abandoning the current system of candidacy and appointment. Kansans for Conditional Freedom said it has already secured funding to oppose the amendment, but HB 2106 would prevent the organization’s plans. The organization argues that restrictions on HB 2106 “do not aim for the” foreign interest “, Kansas claims to mean silence, but to those who are associated with them.”
“Through a series of extremely broad, extremely invasive and sometimes completely incomprehensible restrictions, the HB 2106 will be scared of the speech of US citizens and domestic organizations much more effectively than that of foreign nationals claimed by Kansas to mean,” the education reads.
Hb 2106 prohibits indirect or direct contributions from an alien used to promote or contrast with a constitutional modification. Any person involved in the campaign for or against an amendment must already submit a series of campaign funding reports and the bill added a new provision that requires non -foreign donors to certify that they have not received more than $ 100,000 in the past four years from foreigners. If the law enforcement, any person who has been aware of $ 100,000 or more in contributions from an alien during the past four years is prohibited from participating in the constitutional defense for up to four years.
The trial called nine members of the Kansas Ethics Government Committee, Commission Executive Director Wade Wiebe and Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, who is allowed under HB 2106 to carry criminal charges against those who violate his provisions. The Ethics Committee, which is expected to be renamed as a Committee for Public Revelation of Kansas under a new law in force in July, is able to bring civil lawsuits against those who violate HB 2106.
During the legislative hearing of the bill, supporters received a special issue with the sixteen thirty mutual capital, a left -wing Dark Money group that has received millions of foreigners and participated in voting measuring campaigns in all US Kans. Open secretsA independent website that monitors money in politics.
The Law Firm of Topeka Irigonegaray and InsenAugh, a criminal defense and personal injury company, and the Elias Law DC -based team, which has challenged and injured From Trump’s administration, they represent the Kansans for constitutional freedom.
Both businesses also participate in Recently filed a lawsuit On the part of three Kansas defense organizations who are challenging a new law that eliminates the three -day grace for mail ballot.
This piece was originally published in Kansa Reflector on May 19, 2025. Kansa Reflector It is part of the Newsroom of States, a non -profit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501C (3) public charity. Kansa Reflector It maintains the independence of the editorial. Contact editor Sherman Smith for questions: [email protected].
