{"id":3985,"date":"2026-08-04T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:34:56","slug":"the-push-to-elect-kansas-supreme-court-justices-is-a-cynical-anti-abortion-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/the-push-to-elect-kansas-supreme-court-justices-is-a-cynical-anti-abortion-power-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans, for their part, have not been shy about their motives. In 2022, then-attorney general candidate Kris Kobach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kansasreflector.com\/2026\/07\/13\/four-years-after-value-them-both-kansas-abortion-rights-are-back-on-the-ballot-aug-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a>\u00a0judicial elections \u201canother path\u201d to restricting abortion, and predicted that instituting them would allow conservatives to \u201cslowly and quietly\u201d overhaul the Kansas Supreme Court. In November 2025, gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson told anti-abortion voters that supreme court elections were the \u201csolution\u201d they\u2019d been waiting for, as long as they had the good sense to play it cool in public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t go out there and say it,\u201d Masterson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marionrecord.com\/direct\/candidate_links_court_vote_to_abortion+5709vote+43616e646964617465206c696e6b7320636f75727420766f746520746f2061626f7274696f6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, according to the\u00a0<em>Marion County Record<\/em>. \u201cBecause they\u2019ll say that if you elect your Supreme Court, you won\u2019t have any right to abortion anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/the-push-to-elect-kansas-supreme-court-justices-is-a-cynical-anti-abortion-power-grab\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>, originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/court-reform\/kansas-supreme-court-elections-amendment-power-grab\/\">Balls and Strikes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans, for their part, have not been shy about their motives. In 2022, then-attorney general candidate Kris Kobach\u00a0called\u00a0judicial elections \u201canother path\u201d to restricting abortion, and predicted that instituting them would allow conservatives to \u201cslowly and quietly\u201d overhaul the Kansas Supreme Court. In November 2025, gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson told anti-abortion voters that supreme court elections &#8230; <a title=\"The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/the-push-to-elect-kansas-supreme-court-justices-is-a-cynical-anti-abortion-power-grab\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab\">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":[253,141,94,820,34,7],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion","tag-anti-abortion-strategy","tag-elections","tag-judicial-elections","tag-kansas","tag-red-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","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=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}