{"id":63027,"date":"2026-02-03T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63027"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:38:13","slug":"cns-10th-circuit-flags-kansas-two-step-traffic-cop-trick-as-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63027","title":{"rendered":"CNS: 10th Circuit flags &#8216;Kansas two-step&#8217; traffic cop trick as unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNS: <a href=\"https:\/\/courthousenews.com\/10th-circuit-flags-kansas-two-step-traffic-cop-trick-as-unconstitutional\/\">10th Circuit flags &#8216;Kansas two-step&#8217; traffic cop trick as unconstitutional<\/a> by Andrew J. Nelson (case posted <a href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62979\">here<\/a>) (&#8220;A 10th Circuit panel on Thursday found that out-of-state motorists who sued Kansas over a traffic stop tactic have standing, but a federal judge went too far in an injunction that imposed documentation and other requirements. At issue was a tactic used by the Kansas Highway Patrol, where a state trooper turns away from the driver\u2019s door and then turns around and starts talking to the motorist again. This maneuver, sometimes known as &#8216;the Kansas two-step,&#8217; initiates what law enforcement describes as a voluntary interaction with the trooper \u2014 as opposed to the rest of the traffic stop, which is involuntary.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS: 10th Circuit flags &#8216;Kansas two-step&#8217; traffic cop trick as unconstitutional by Andrew J. Nelson (case posted here) (&#8220;A 10th Circuit panel on Thursday found that out-of-state motorists who sued Kansas over a traffic stop tactic have standing, but a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63027\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63029,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63027\/revisions\/63029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}