Tag: Kansas Supreme Court
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday October 27, 2010
Today: Education, Elections, Kansas Supreme Court, Mike Pompeo, Politics, Raj Goyle, Walt Chappell, Wichita and Kansas schools, Corporate welfare
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday October 21, 2010
Today: Climate change, Facebook, George Soros, Jerry Moran, Kansas Supreme Court, Koch Industries, Regulation, Politics, Wichita Eagle opinion watch, Kansas judges, Taxation
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Kansas judicial retention elections
Today’s Wichita Eagle contains an article about Kansas Supreme Court Justices and their retention elections. These elections, where voters are asked whether a judge should remain a member of the court, represent the primary way that ordinary Kansans participate in the selection of who sits on our state’s highest court and appeals court.
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Kansas judicial selection needs reform, says law professor
Selecting lawmakers is important, says Kansas University Law Professor Stephen J. Ware, and that’s why Kansans should care about the method of judicial selection in Kansas.
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Kansas judicial selection expert to speak in Wichita
Kansas University law professor Stephen J. Ware is an expert on the process of judicial selection in Kansas and other states. His research shows that Kansas is at the undemocratic extreme end of the spectrum in concentrating power in members of the bar when it comes to selecting judges for our state’s highest courts.
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Kansas judicial retention election attracts attention
Kansas Watchdog’s Earl Glynn reports on the fund-raising and politics surrounding Kansas Supreme Court Justice Carol A. Beier and the retention election she faces this year. Normally these judicial retention elections are not newsworthy, although perhaps they should be. This year’s retention election for Justice Beier, however, is attracting attention.
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Kansas Democrats described as ‘imploding’
Larry J. Sabato, who is director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, is a respected analyst of national who publishes Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an informative look at campaigns and races around the country. In the most recent issue Sabato takes a look at 2010 gubernatorial races and concludes that “There’s now no question…
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Limits of government and rights of people to be addressed in Wichita
This Friday (May 7) Sarah Mcintosh will address members and guests of the Wichita Pachyderm Club. Ms. McIntosh’s presentation, titled “Make No Law,” will discuss the constitutional powers and limits of the federal government, versus the rights of the people, with a particular focus on the interaction of rights and powers in the health care…
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More problems with Kansas judicial selection noted
Kansas University law professor Stephen J. Ware has researched and written extensively about the processes that states use to select justices to their high courts. Kansas, as it turns out, is at the extreme end of the spectrum of the methods the states use. … Now a legal writer has made an argument that our…
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Corkins testifies on school finance history, recommendations
Topeka, Kansas — In testimony Money before an interim session of the Kansas House Appropriations Committee, former Kansas Education Commissioner Bob Corkins supplied insight into Kansas school funding court decisions, and made some recommendations for the future.
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Kansas is at the undemocratic extreme in judicial selection
Kansas University law professor Stephen J. Ware has extensively researched and written on the method of judicial selection in the United States. His recent paper The Bar’s Extraordinarily Powerful Role in Selecting the Kansas Supreme Court again lets us know that in Kansas, a select group of lawyers has tremendous control over the nominating process.…
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Kansas judicial selection needs examination, reform
The upcoming retention election for Kansas Supreme Court Justice Carol Beier provides an opportunity to examine the judicial selection process in Kansas.