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You may disagree with his counsel, but at least we got to hear what Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline told Senate Republicans on Thursday about responding to the state Supreme Court’s school funding order. That wouldn’t have happened if lawmakers had had their way; they wanted a closed meeting. But to his credit — and perhaps showing that he learned from his mistake of meeting privately with State Board of Education members in February and with conservative lawmakers in Wichita earlier this month — Kline told lawmakers that they should let reporters attend. Government meetings need to be open, especially when devoted to debating whether to defy the high court or amend the constitution.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee