Voters Reject Republicans\u2019 Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door<\/p>\n
The reason that the Supreme Court in such a red state doesn\u2019t move in lockstep with the Republican legislature is its nominating process, known as a \u201cmerit-based\u201d system. An independent commission, composed of five lawyers put on the commission by other lawyers and four non-attorneys picked by the governor, chooses candidates to interview for the vacancy from a pool. The commission then nominates three of those candidates, and the governor picks the winner.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Republicans, heavily funded by outside groups \u2014 including those tied<\/a> to the Federalist Society\u2019s Leonard Leo \u2014 were pushing to do away with that system and to allow the legislature to shape a still-unwritten law for voters to cast ballots for justices directly. They were gambling that a move to partisan elections<\/a> would infuse the process with money, party involvement and less independent judges, a benefit to them in a Republican state. North Carolina Republicans were successful in the same endeavor: They switched to partisan elections in 2018, won a majority on the state Supreme Court after the 2022 midterms and quickly got results, including an about-face<\/a> on gerrymandering.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n Kansas voters reject electing state Supreme Court justices as constitutional amendment fails<\/p>\n Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have changed to electing state Supreme Court justices, in a win for groups that were concerned the change would impact abortion rights and school funding.<\/p>\n Read more at KCUR.org<\/a><\/p>\n Kansas voters reject another attempt to reshape the state\u2019s abortion landscape<\/p>\n Reproductive rights supporters framed the ballot measure to elect state justices as an attempt to weaken abortion rights.<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Voters Reject Republicans\u2019 Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door The reason that the Supreme Court in such a red state doesn\u2019t move in lockstep with the Republican legislature is its nominating process, known as a \u201cmerit-based\u201d system. An independent commission, composed of five lawyers put on the commission by other lawyers and … 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":[172,267,825,394,94,137,34,308],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-abortion-rights","tag-back-door-bans","tag-constitutional-amendment","tag-elections","tag-gop","tag-kansas","tag-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","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=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}