The fight over the Kansas Supreme Court reflects the growing importance of state courts since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal constitutional right to abortion and put claims of partisan gerrymandering beyond the reach of federal judges. “State supreme courts are doing what the federal Supreme Court used to do — the difference being that you can manipulate the composition of the state supreme court through elections,” said Charles Geyh, an Indiana University law professor who has written extensively about state supreme courts. Republicans sought to reverse the state court’s abortion ruling with a measure that appeared on the ballot six weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal right to obtain an abortion. The current selection method in Kansas for state supreme court justices is controlled by political insiders and their cronies. Let we the people decide who will sit on our state's highest court.