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 »

Favorability numbers for Sam Brownback, Kris Kobach, the KC Star, and liberal newsman Steve Rose

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  August 20th at 08:50 PM  | 

Note: For readability — the columns are better lined-up vertically at our original article at our site. I’ll break down these results for you over the next few days.  But here are the detailed results of a recent poll conducted in Overland Park, Kansas, a large suburb of Kansas City, MO.   Part 3 of results Telephone survey among likely 2012 voters in Overland Park, | Read More »