{"id":3983,"date":"2026-08-04T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:30:21","slug":"tuesdays-big-contest-in-michigan-and-a-lower-profile-one-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/tuesdays-big-contest-in-michigan-and-a-lower-profile-one-in-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday&#8217;s Big Contest in Michigan, and a Lower-Profile One in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll have our eye on a <strong>Republican-backed ballot referendum to switch Kansas to judicial elections<\/strong>, the first of what both supporters and opponents see as <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/cafe\/the-real-logic-behind-the-gops-new-push-for-judicial-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a growing conservative push nationwide<\/a> to remake courts so that they are more likely to support Republican policies. Its the latest effort by right-wing operatives in the state to undo a 2019 decision by the state Supreme Court protecting abortion \u2014 a wall they\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/kansas-abortion-constitutional-right-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banging their heads against<\/a> in various ways ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/the-brief\/tuesdays-big-contest-in-michigan-and-a-lower-profile-one-in-kansas\">Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll have our eye on a Republican-backed ballot referendum to switch Kansas to judicial elections, the first of what both supporters and opponents see as a growing conservative push nationwide to remake courts so that they are more likely to support Republican policies. Its the latest effort by right-wing operatives in the state to undo &#8230; <a title=\"Tuesday&#8217;s Big Contest in Michigan, and a Lower-Profile One in Kansas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/tuesdays-big-contest-in-michigan-and-a-lower-profile-one-in-kansas\/\" aria-label=\"More on Tuesday&#8217;s Big Contest in Michigan, and a Lower-Profile One in Kansas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,94,137,34,63],"class_list":["post-3983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion-strategy","tag-elections","tag-gop","tag-kansas","tag-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}