Tim Carpenter
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 Aug
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Three cheers for passage of the 2026 Kansas primary election.
Everybody, settle down, take a deep breath of fresh air.
So we're gonna have a brief pause in the flood of mailers and ads assorted uh uh on assorted ri local, state, and federal government campaigns.
I'm Tim Carpenter, a reporter with Kansas Reflector.
And I'm here with Bob Beatty, a political science professor at Washburn University, and he's uh uh
Really aggressive observer of Arkansas elections, and he's gonna try to help us sort it all out.
Probably the big ticket item that uh occurred yesterday in the Tuesday primary was that the proposed constitutional amendment uh regarding the process for selecting justices to the Supreme Court was rejected.
Bob, do you have a general sense of why the Kansas voters said no to that?
And before you go on, Bob, I think uh I want to just provide people a little bit of background about how the current system is and how it might have been in the future.
So currently we have a commission and they publicly interview all the applicants uh for to be a Supreme Court justice.
They publicly vote on those and then they pick three finalists and they forward that to the Kansas governor.
The Kansas governor deliberates interviews and just simply makes the appointment to the Supreme Court.
Under this new system, as you suggested, the justices and uh potential justices would just become ordinary politicians.
They'd raise money, they'd go out and campaign and they'd make pledges and they'd talk about issues, and they would have PACs trying to get in involved.
And so you'd really have them
Involved in the process, just like politicians.
What could go wrong?
So when you think about uh the the idea, the the conservatives in the legislature uh put this on the ballot, what do you think the advocates for it had to do to prevail?
What did they need to do to convince a majority of voters to go with this?
Keep in mind, two-thirds said no.
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