Kansas attorney general to intervene as constitutionality of emergency management law questioned

Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced he will intervene in a challenge to a Johnson County mask mandate.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Thursday in a legal filing that his office will seek to intervene in a challenge to a Johnson County mask mandate — a case which has burgeoned into a threat to the constitutionality of a sweeping set of reforms to the state’s emergency management law. Senate Bill 40 … included a sweeping provision allowing individuals to demand a hearing or file a civil suit challenging COVID-19-related orders from a local governmental body, school board or public health officer, with strict time limits on when a hearing must be held and a verdict rendered.
Source: Dodge City Daily Globe.