U.S. Supreme Court

Rethinking the policy that shields police and government officials from civil lawsuits

The long line of cars was met by a small group of anti-Trump protesters near the Country Club Plaza. The rally came the same day that the president made public his Supreme Court nomination.

A former Kansas City councilwoman is running to unseat Missouri's Republican second-in-command, an unexpected death on the Supreme Court raises questions about politics and the judiciary, and something else about the pandemic: More Americans than ever are leaving urban areas.

When the Bureau of Prisons finally turned over the records — after Purkey's second execution date was set — they went to the government's lawyers, who Purkey’s lawyers say failed to turn the records over to them.

Purkey admitted to abducting Jennifer Long as she was walking home from high school, raping and murdering her in his Lansing, Kansas, home and then dismembering her body.

Missouri’s admitting-privilege requirement has survived several court challenges, most recently when a federal judge in Kansas City refused to block the law.

Conservatives decry the decision, but a ruling by the Supreme Court is being celebrated by hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Two DACA recipients living in Kansas City offered their reactions, and an expert on the court analyzed the decision.

Reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on an Obama-era immigration program, a comparison of current Kansas City protests to those that occurred after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., and how to make the best grilled burger for dad on Father's Day.

Gay and transgender Americans can no longer have their employment terminated on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That decision was delivered June 15 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Unified Government's top doctor provides an update on progress curbing the pandemic in Wyandotte County, and analysis of the 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in a Title VII case and how employers and workers in Kansas and Missouri will be affected by that landmark decision on employment discrimination.

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it was illegal to fire an employee for being gay or transgender, LGBTQ activists in Missouri and Kansas were gratified to see these long-sought protections come at the national level, but say there's still work to be done.

In a ruling that could have implications for criminal cases nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a Kansas death row inmate who…