Sometimes a senator just has to change his mind

Legislators should be careful about signing onto bills without having fully considered their consequences. Otherwise, they risk ending up like five state senators this week: Though they were listed among 28 co-sponsors of the proposed constitutional amendment to require Senate confirmation of Kansas Supreme Court justices, the five ultimately voted against it. No hard feelings, though — the “no” vote was the right response to this unnecessary measure, which would have politicized the high court.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

2 Comments

  1. kelly
    Posted March 11, 2006 at 4:46 am | Permalink

    Those senators should be patted on the back. Why didn’t you name them? Were any of them from Wichita? This bill was a remnant of the special sessiond debacle last year. It is nice to see that reason can prevail over hyperbole once in a while.

  2. OneShot
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 12:08 pm | Permalink

    Politicize the high court? It is politicized, its just done under the radar.

    In government, everything is politics.