Kansas supreme court rules state constitution does not provide the right to vote

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Necronmon
06/01/2024
05:21 PM
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/01/kansas-supreme-court-right-to-vote

SO...Kansas is trying hard to be race to be the worst state....god damn it everyone's better off in Oz.
Dakimakura
06/01/2024
05:22 PM
#2
They finna bring Jim Crow back
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tremain07
06/01/2024
05:26 PM
#3
As soon as Republicans take power over the country again voting rights and everything else are going to be slaughtered they just flat out do not want a democracy traitors
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02fran
06/01/2024
05:47 PM
#5
Shitty red state legislators
Kradek
06/01/2024
05:50 PM
#6
Even if it doesn't, the federal government guarantees it. The right-wing SC may have dismantled the VRA, however there is still some semblance of it.

This seems like something that would be defeated by any true-hearted judges.

Still, Republicans always proving how hard they want to end democracy.

Fucking sickens me how people run defense and/or directly support them.
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WingsOfGood
06/02/2024
03:39 PM
#7
GOP gonna GOP
mybbqrules
06/02/2024
04:35 PM
#8
Didn't Kansas voters decide to keep abortion legal or something recently, and the Kansas GOP legislature basically said "lol, no."?
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Compsognathus
06/02/2024
04:38 PM
#9
Kansas' SC are pretty strict constitutionalist. Which is why they also ruled that banning abortion was unconstitutional awhile back which is what caused right wing-nuts to try to pass a constitutional amendment that got voted down.

In this case because the KS constitution didn't explicitly state voting as a constitutional right, they say it isn't.
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darkace77450
06/02/2024
05:21 PM
#10
mybbqrules posted...
Didn't Kansas voters decide to keep abortion legal or something recently, and the Kansas GOP legislature basically said "lol, no."?

That was Ohio.
SauI_Goodman
06/02/2024
05:24 PM
#11
Kansas
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Gritty
06/02/2024
05:26 PM
#12
Did they have a vote on whether people have the right to vote?
RetuenOfDevsman
06/02/2024
05:36 PM
#13
It baffles me that some people still have faith in the voting system.
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Hyena_Of_Ice
06/02/2024
06:24 PM
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Compsognathus posted...
Kansas' SC are pretty strict constitutionalist. Which is why they also ruled that banning abortion was unconstitutional awhile back which is what caused right wing-nuts to try to pass a constitutional amendment that got voted down.

In this case because the KS constitution didn't explicitly state voting as a constitutional right, they say it isn't.

The Originalists claim it's not a federal Constitutional right, either, it's a "Constitutional privilege." Seriously.
Kradek
06/02/2024
08:45 PM
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darkace77450 posted...
That was Ohio.

Yeah, Kansas is the one who put it in the summer of a primary year in the hopes that it would motivate the least amount of people to the polls. Instead we saw how the issue will drive even Republican voters to protect this right as it overwhelmingly passed.
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mybbqrules
06/03/2024
01:16 AM
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darkace77450 posted...
That was Ohio.
Ah, thanks.
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TerraSeeker
06/03/2024
03:17 AM
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darkace77450 posted...
That was Ohio.
Actually it was Kansas. Though I guess it depends on what you consider recent.
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sfcalimari
06/03/2024
04:32 AM
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Joke state, their only big city is located in another state.
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wackyteen
06/05/2024
09:43 AM
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Anti-American fucks at the highest levels everywhere.
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DnDer
06/05/2024
09:54 AM
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Hyena_Of_Ice posted...
The Originalists claim it's not a federal Constitutional right, either, it's a "Constitutional privilege." Seriously.

Originalists don't pay attention to anything originally in the Constitution. Look at anything "originalist" Scalia said.

Fucking Kansas.
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TheOtherMike
06/05/2024
09:55 AM
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The Republican Party is literally a terrorist organization.
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bigblu89
06/05/2024
10:14 AM
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If I read the article correctly, it's basically just a ploy to be able to reject people requesting access to early/mail-in voting and making it near impossible for groups to organize new voter registration events.

Trying to block mail-in and teenage voting. I wonder why?
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wackyteen
06/05/2024
10:15 AM
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bigblu89 posted...
If I read the article correctly, it's basically just a ploy to be able to reject people requesting access to early/mail-in voting and making it near impossible for groups to organize new voter registration events.

Trying to block mail-in and teenage voting. I wonder why?

Those who have power are loathe to part with it. They know their grip on power is threatened when the youths get pissed off enough to actually bother voting.
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SaikyoStyle
06/05/2024
10:22 AM
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DnDer posted...
Originalists don't pay attention to anything originally in the Constitution. Look at anything "originalist" Scalia said.

Fucking Kansas.
If they were really originalists then theyd concede that the Constitution doesnt give individuals the right to own guns.
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Kradek
06/05/2024
11:29 AM
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ArmieBuff posted...
What we need is for people like Alito and Thomas to be replaced

No doubt.

The SC should also be expanded to 12/13 judges, not because it would help Dems (obviously it would if done under Biden), but because each judge is supposed to preside over a circuit and currently a few of them have 2.

The 13th is a federal circuit, so I'd be fine with accepting 12 for the conventional reason they exist.

Unfortunately, no Dem will expand it because of timidity/"seeming political" and Republicans will probably expand it next time they get in just to show they don't give a fuck about anything except securing their power.
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theAteam
06/05/2024
11:41 AM
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Kradek posted...
No doubt.

The SC should also be expanded to 12/13 judges, not because it would help Dems (obviously it would), but because each judge is supposed to preside over a circuit and currently a few of them have 2.

The 13th is a federal circuit, so I'd be fine with accepting 12 for the conventional reason they exist.

Unfortunately, no Dem will expand it because of timidity/"seeming political" and Republicans will probably expand it next time they get in just to show they don't give a fuck about anything except securing their power.

Would they need a 2/3 majority vote to do this? I could see why it's never getting done in that case.
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TheOtherMike
06/06/2024
07:11 AM
#29
Post 23 modded, then reversed on dispute. Feels good to not have facts censored.
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Kradek
06/06/2024
04:17 PM
#30
theAteam posted...
Would they need a 2/3 majority vote to do this? I could see why it's never getting done in that case.

TBH I'm not sure about that.

TheOtherMike posted...
Post 23 modded, then reversed on dispute. Feels good to not have facts censored.

A victory for facts and reality
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LightHawKnight
06/08/2024
02:26 PM
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Will never understand why Republicans are allowed to be worse than literal cartoon villains.
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hockeybabe89
06/08/2024
02:27 PM
#34
Guess this means the people will have to influence the government in other ways.
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Hyena_Of_Ice
06/09/2024
01:59 AM
#35
Hold on, my previous post was incomplete.

The Originalists claim it's not a federal Constitutional right, either, it's a "Constitutional privilege." Seriously. But owning guns, of course, is a federal constitutional right.

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