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 »

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 »

The flawed, anti-democratic judicial selection model used in many states

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 9th at 01:25 AM  | 

The following article is published in Kansas City’s new monthly print newspaper, The Citizen, during this month of March 2011.  If you’re in Kansas City, please contact The Citizen’s owners to ask how you might help make the paper as successful as possible (for example, if you know of coffee shops or bars where the paper can be dropped off for free to readers. This article is about how | Read More »

Articles of interest, Nov. 20

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 20th at 01:10 PM  | 

Articles you might find interesting: New York Post - How the Israelis protect their airports Five indicted in federal investigation of multi-million dollar KU ticket fraud Ray Merrick likely to be elected Senator on Monday Independent Women’s Forum - Foreclosures are a necessary part of economic adjustment World Magazine - All 50 states investigate concerns that mortgage companies illegally foreclosed on hundreds of thousands of properties Flight attendants | Read More »