Is Kansas ready for anti-justice ads?

Some critics of the Kansas Supreme Court and its “unelected judges” are thinking of making the school-finance case an issue for the two justices who’ll be up for retention elections next year, Justice Robert Davis and the to-be-named justice. No Kansas justice has ever failed in a retention election, and efforts to inform those up-or-down votes could have value. But the prospect of seeing justices’ retention elections politicized makes it more imperative that legislators next year fill the campaign finance disclosure loopholes exploited by certain groups in 2004.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

5 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted July 17, 2005 at 11:59 am | Permalink

    By election time next year, this will be an old story and nobody will care, so the retention vote for judges will stay the same. They will stay on the bench.

  2. Kelly
    Posted July 17, 2005 at 1:17 pm | Permalink

    If the local neocons decide to sponsor a campaign to not retain Justice Davis, will they have to admit that he is an ELECTED judge? I’m not sure they would care about being accused of hypocrisy – the religious right wing of the Republican party has proven time and again that they don’t care about being logical, rational, or telling the truth.

  3. Jimmy Bisoni
    Posted July 17, 2005 at 3:07 pm | Permalink

    The Eagle only likes it when THEY can comment on judges. Bring on the ads! Viva the 1st Amendment to the Constitution!

  4. Tricia T.
    Posted July 17, 2005 at 8:34 pm | Permalink

    If there was ever a subject that needed sunlight, it is in the qualifications of judges. We are asked to vote for these people without any useful information whatsoever.

  5. Joe Williams
    Posted July 18, 2005 at 12:06 am | Permalink

    Tricia! To be a judge in Kansas does require a minimum qualification standard.

    I have to double check, but you have to be a practicing lawyer in the State and must have been for at least 7 years. It is something like that.