Tag: Supreme Court
Denning: Abortion funding, Medicaid expansion not linked
(Developing: Will be updated as warranted)
Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning took steps to defend the Medicaid expansion bill Friday, saying abortion opponents are falsely...
Senate leadership divide grows over Medicaid expansion
The divide between top Republican leaders in the Kansas Senate widened Monday over attempts to link Medicaid expansion to a constitutional amendment on abortion.
Senate...
UPDATED: Abortion amendment defeated; Medicaid expansion threatened
(Updated to include comments from Senate majority leader and Planned Parenthood president)
Abortion opponents' drive to overturn a historic state Supreme Court decision that found...
Abortion amendment will scare off businesses, Kelly says
Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday warned that a proposed constitutional amendment reversing a state Supreme Court ruling on abortion will deter businesses from coming...
Chief justice withdraws from legislative address
New Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert has withdrawn from giving the annual State of the Judiciary address to the Legislature.
Luckert pulled out...
UPDATED: Governor names Wilson to Supreme Court
(Updated to reflect comments from the governor, the new justice, Kansans for Life and Sen. Ty Masterson; Also corrects that Gerald Schultz was among...
Transparency of Supreme Court nominating panel questioned
This time, it was supposed to be different.
When a panel of five lawyers and four nonlawyers recently convened to recommend new justices to the...
Kansans for Life battles Supreme Court candidates
The state's leading group against abortion rights is battling to keep two judges off the state Supreme Court, arguing they're too extreme and will ...
Petition seeking better statehouse deaf services denied
The Kansas Supreme Court has dismissed a complaint brought by a former House candidate who wanted to force the Legislature to provide better services...
Can a press release be Kansas legal precedent?
It may be the most talked-about press release in Kansas jurisprudence.
Earlier this year when the Kansas Supreme Court threw out the cap on noneconomic...
