Kansas ACLU Argues Against AG Kobach

We missed this one earlier in the week but the bold statement is worth consideration for those who haven't seen it already . . .

“This is a blatant power grab by increasingly radicalized Kansas politicians – and an audacious attempt to undermine our constitutional rights that the Court has upheld,” said Micah Kubic, ACLU of Kansas Executive Director. “Attorney General Kris Kobach expressed last fall his deep yearning to politicize and usurp control from the Court. We should believe him when he says that his plan, made real in this proposed amendment, is retaliation against the Court for protecting reproductive freedom and education funding. Moreover, it is an attack on the voters themselves – who have indicated time and again that they support these rights. Attorney General Kobach needs to learn to take ‘no’ for an answer, from the courts or voters, when he attempts to trample on critical rights – rather than trying to dismantle the independence of our courts in order to get his own extremist vision implemented.”

Last fall, Attorney General Kobach openly called for a constitutional amendment as a direct response to a court whose rulings he has disagreed with. Currently, the language of the Kansas Constitution explicitly protects the independence of the judiciary, through the nomination process, and keeps Kansas Supreme Court judges out of partisan politics.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

“A blatant power grab” – ACLU of Kansas warns of Kobach-fueled attack on judicial branch