Kansas Voters Could Change the Way Judges Are Selected

Kansas will have a proposition on the November ballot that could send shock waves into the tenure of state court judges. The voters in Kansas' Johnson County will vote on the right to elect their 10th judicial district court judges instead of having them chosen by the lawyers.

We hear a lot in the media about bringing democracy to the world. Citizens in this suburban Kansas City county are asking for more democracy in the middle of the United States...

[We've activist judges (galore) because they're largely unaccountable to the American people. "Independent Judiciary" was meant to mean independent from the other branches of government only - never the people - we need remind the black robe society on who's sufferance their jobs rightly depend. Recommended > ]

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