Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment that could have reshaped how the law is decided by electing justices to the state Supreme Court.
The amendment, brought by lawmakers and advocates who had become fed up with court rulings they said were out of step with the electorate, lost 61% to 39%, according to unofficial results.
The amendment would have abolished a system used since 1958 that employs a nine-person screening panel - five lawyers elected by their peers and four nonlawyers appointed by the governor - to nominate three candidates for the court to the governor.
The governor picks . . .
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