KU law professor Stephen Ware interviewed on Wichita TV about Kansas’ unaccountable judiciary
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | February 22nd at 11:00 PM |
KU professor Stephen Ware: ”This violates basic equality among citizens, the principle of one-person, one-vote. The current system elevates one small group and treats everyone else like second-class citizens.” Kansas is the only state in the union that grants lawyers a majority control of the judicial selection process. I can’t imagine how it’s constitutional. 10,000 lawyers control 2.8 million Kansans. In short, it doesn’t matter | Read More »
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Paul Ibbetson interviews Benjamin Hodge about November win by John Toplikar, who out-performed Romney by 10%. Part 2 of 2
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 13th at 06:00 AM |
Background: “John Toplikar’s encouraging victory in the election for Johnson County Commission, part 1 of 2″ at Redstate. Interview: “The Conscience of Kansas” runs daily at 5-6 p.m. in central Kansas on 105.7 FM “The Patriot,” the station that carries Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity. Listen live to 105.7 FM by clicking here. Here is the link to the station’s Facebook page, and to its Web | Read More »
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John Toplikar’s encouraging victory in the election for Johnson County Commission, part 1 of 2
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 11th at 02:19 AM |
Congratulations to Commissioner-elect John Toplikar. Out-raised 15 to 1 and out-endorsed, Toplikar beat the incumbent 67% to 33%. The political action committee I chair in Kansas got involved in one race this cycle: the 6th district county commission race in Johnson County, Kansas. The race involved two functional incumbents, both Republican: a conservative former Commissioner John Toplikar, and liberal Commissioner Calvin Hayden, who beat Toplikar by | Read More »
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KU law professor Stephen Ware on judicial selection in Kansas, where 10,000 people control 2.8 million
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 4th at 10:58 PM |
KU professor Stephen Ware: ”This violates basic equality among citizens, the principle of one-person, one-vote. The current system elevates one small group and treats everyone else like second-class citizens.” The Kansas judicial selection model is unlike any other state. Like many states, Kansas uses the elitist, undemocratic ”Missouri system,” where law-degree-holders (not necessarily the same thing as those who know more about the law) have far more | Read More »
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