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

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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.

They finna bring Jim Crow back

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

Shitty red state legislators

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.

GOP gonna GOP

Didn't Kansas voters decide to keep abortion legal or something recently, and the Kansas GOP legislature basically said "lol, no."?

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.

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.

Kansas

Did they have a vote on whether people have the right to vote?

It baffles me that some people still have faith in the voting system.

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.

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.

darkace77450 posted...

That was Ohio.

Ah, thanks.

darkace77450 posted...

That was Ohio.

Actually it was Kansas. Though I guess it depends on what you consider recent.

Joke state, their only big city is located in another state.

Anti-American fucks at the highest levels everywhere.

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.

The Republican Party is literally a terrorist organization.

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?

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.

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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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.

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.

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

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

Will never understand why Republicans are allowed to be worse than literal cartoon villains.

Guess this means the people will have to influence the government in other ways.

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.