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The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab
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TPM – Talking Points Memo
On Tuesday, voters in Kansas will decide whether to make a dramatic change to the process for filling vacancies on the Kansas Supreme Court.
Only a year earlier, Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court had created a solid majority of five anti-abortion justices primed to overturn Roe v. Wade.
In June, just two months before Kansans headed to the polls, the U.S. Supreme Court indeed overturned Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“Because they’ll say that if you elect your Supreme Court, you won’t have any right to abortion anymore.”
The legislature’s crusade for partisan supreme court elections is reactionary politics in its purest form.