Attorney General Kris Kobach says smaller towns don’t have to publish legal notices in the local paper anymore. That’s a dangerous precedent. | Opinion
Courtesy of Eric MeyerThe police chief of Marion, Kansas, resigned at a city council meeting on Monday, more than a month after he ordered raids on the office of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher—an act condemned far and wide as being illegal suppression of the press. Gideon Cody, who was suspended indefinitely last week, ordered a raid that seized computers, cell phones, and other devices from the Marion County Record and its publisher’s home on a search warrant that was withdrawn
The police chief who spearheaded a raid on a local newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, days after he was suspended from his role. Marion, Kan., Mayor Dave Mayfield announced at a town council meeting Monday that Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody stepped down from his position “effective immediately.” Mayfield and City Council member Ruth Herbel confirmed…