02/14/2026
Let's Elect All The Judges the Lobbyists and Billionaires Like (said no one ever).
That is what the moneyed politicians and their lobbyists are trying to foist on Kansas voters. We adopted the merit system for selecting our Supreme Court 50 years ago when a Governor and others got caught selling seats. It has served as a bulwark to having political races over judges since. No Supreme Court justice in Kansas has been accused of selling a vote on any decision, since we went to Merit Selection. When the Kansas Court made decisions that pi**ed off powerful Republicans (Brownback, Koch, the list is long) they decided to just change the rules and start electing ones to whom they have given millions of campaign dollars. Look at the mess Musk created in Wisconsin. Look at the West Virgina billionaire who literally bought enough judges to overturn a court judgment against him. Look at the money spent in fighting over abortion and other hot button issues. Every election year those states have to endure the torture of raunchy emotional advertising designed to unseat impartial judges who vote their conscience and training instead of doing what their political patrons would ask if all it took was buying an election. In August, in a move designed to catch Kansas when not very many people vote, most of them pretty partisan, the moneyed ones have put on the ballot a measure to change our Constitution to seize control of an entire branch of the government, the Courts. Please take the time to watch this retired Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court explain why we need to vote no on that amendment. Justice Beier is one of the most respected jurists we have ever had. I did not know her political affiliation when I argued cases in her court and I damn sure know she didn't give a damn about mine. She knew that her rulings were not going to result in a billionaire trying to beat her with a lackey. Let's keep it that way in Kansas and quit letting the politicians mess with a system that has worked and will work.
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