From Kansas Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall's concurrence in the judgment yesterday in In the Matter of Suzanne Valdez:

Back in 2021 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the respondent Suzanne Valdez, a publicly elected official—the Douglas County District Attorney—made some intemperate comments about the chief judge of the district. Now, years later, after countless news stories, public outcry, lawyers hired, weeks and months of investigations and hearings, and a subsequent election for Douglas County District Attorney at which the respondent was unseated in part because of these charges—here we are. Was it worth it? No, it was not….

From [the panel decision], we can easily deduce that none of Valdez' comments were proven to be untrue or made with reckless disregard as to their t

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