A federal judge on Friday agreed to permanently stop Kansas ethics officials from applying the state’s definition of a political action committee to an Overland Park neighborhood group but stopped short of declaring the entire law unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree issued a permanent injunction that keeps the state ethics commission from applying the law so that Fresh Vision OP would be required to file reports showing which candidates the group supports financially.
Crabtree ruled that the state's campaign law impermissibly allowed Kansas to designate Fresh Vision - "a group with a major purpose of express advocacy . . .
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