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In reporting on Saturday’s Statehouse rally against the Kansas Supreme Court’s school finance order, the Lawrence Journal-World made an excellent point about one rallier’s sign reading, “Stop the Activist Sebelius Court.”
Of the six members of the current court, only one, Justice Carol Beier, was appointed by Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. For the record: Chief Justice Kay McFarland was appointed by Republican Gov. Robert Bennett. Justices Donald Allegrucci and Robert Davis were appointed by Democratic Gov. John Carlin. Justices Lawton Nuss and Marla Luckert were appointed by Republican Gov. Bill Graves.
That breakdown makes the roots of the state’s highest court a model in partisan balance. That said, good judges rule on the law, without regard to which party happened to put them on the bench.
Posted by Rhonda Holman