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 »

Audio: KU law professor Stephen Ware interviewed by Paul Ibbetson about Kansas’ undemocratic judicial selection

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  December 17th at 01:15 AM  | 

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.”   Earlier this month, I posted an op-ed written by Stephen Ware in the Lawrence Journal-World.  Ware is a professor of law at the University of Kansas.  I encourage you to read that article.  In part, | Read More »

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 »