A federal judge has sided with two state lawmakers who sued legislative leadership, arguing a provision of the Kansas Constitution violates the U.S. Constitution.

The legal dispute stems from the effort to call a convention of the states to amend the U.S. Constitution . Efforts in the Kansas Legislature have succeeded in getting simple majorities of lawmakers, but the Kansas Constitution requires supermajorities.

The lawsuit argued that the provision of the Kansas Constitution — Article II, Section 13 — violated Article V of the U.S. Constitution.

Sen. Mike Thompson, R-Shawnee, and then-Rep. Michael Murphy, R-Sylvia, filed the lawsuit in December 2023 in U.S. District Court in Topeka. Murphy has since been elected to the Senate. The defendants were Senate President Ty Masterson, R-And

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