Republican Senator Sued by His Former Patient

Photo: Sen. Roger Marshall, Kan., speaks to Brooke Rollins during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on her nomination for Secretary of Agriculture, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (USDA photo by Tom Witham). Attribution: “20250123-USDA-OSEC-TEW-0964” by U.S. Department of Agriculture via Flickr. Public Domain. Article by Hafiz Rashid. The New Republic – October 30, 2026.

Republican Senator Roger Marshall, who is in the middle of a tight reelection campaign, was sued Friday for allegedly charging illegal interest rates to his patients in his former career as a doctor. Marshall’s former patient Meischa Zimmerman filed the class-action lawsuit Thursday in Kansas state court against both Marshall and his former medical practice on behalf of herself and several other patients. Last month, The New York Times broke the story that Marshall sued hundreds of his patients for medical debts in rural Barton County, Kansas, where many residents live in poverty and don’t have health insurance. […]

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