The very last contributor listed was $400,000 from George Soros' Open Society Policy Center nonprofit.
Others include $250,000 from NEA, $100,000 + $500,000 from ACLU Kansas, $250,000 from ACLU Foundation of Kansas, $250,000 + $1 million from ACLU NYC, $200,000 + $250,000 from Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, $400,000 +$200,000 from Planned Parenthood Action Fund, $175,000 from Health Forward Foundation, $1 million from Lynn Shusterman. A number of $50,000 and $100,000 contributions from law firms.
How about really OPPOSING billionaires/millionaires donating and supporting DEMOCRAT organizations and candidates?
When a vacancy occurs on the Kansas Supreme Court, a nine-member nominating commission selects three finalists from a pool of applicants. The commission includes five attorneys, who are members of the Kansas bar, and four non-attorneys appointed by the Governor. [1]
The Governor must choose one of the three nominees. If the Governor declines, the Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court makes the appointment. [2]
According to the non-partisan Ballotpedia, Kansas is the only state that uses a bar-controlled commission—where attorneys elected by the state bar hold a majority of seats—to select Supreme Court nominees. [3]
However, 20 other states use some form of a nominating commission in their selection process. These commissions vary:
10 states have governor-controlled commissions
12 states use hybrid commissions with no single group in control
The most common method is election.
13 states use nonpartisan elections.
8 states use partisan elections.
Supporters of the current model, which they refer to as “merit selection” argue that lawyers are best equipped to select members to the State’s Highest Court. [4] They also contend that the nomination committee helps insulate justices from political influence, allowing decisions to be based on law rather than politics.[5]
Critics argue that the current system is “undemocratic” because it gives members of the state bar disproportionate influence over the nomination process. They note that Kansas is an outlier in having a “bar-controlled commission”, noting that lawyers make up just 0.03% of the state’s population, yet have the ability to effectively shape an entire branch of the state’s government. [6]
Two people, one lawyer and one non-lawyer from each Congressional District are appointed to the Nominating Commission. That’s the statute - so when someone tells you the Justices are hand-picked by lawyers, they’re LYING TO YOU.
Are they though?
IF what you wrote is true, WHY does the Kansas Supreme Court lean consistently LIBERAL?
To my knowledge, only 1 is currently conservative and there is no current way to make the Supreme Court more balanced to reflect rural, CONSERVATIVE Kansas voters.
https://x.com/EarlGlynn/status/2080524784719261964
The very last contributor listed was $400,000 from George Soros' Open Society Policy Center nonprofit.
Others include $250,000 from NEA, $100,000 + $500,000 from ACLU Kansas, $250,000 from ACLU Foundation of Kansas, $250,000 + $1 million from ACLU NYC, $200,000 + $250,000 from Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, $400,000 +$200,000 from Planned Parenthood Action Fund, $175,000 from Health Forward Foundation, $1 million from Lynn Shusterman. A number of $50,000 and $100,000 contributions from law firms.
How about really OPPOSING billionaires/millionaires donating and supporting DEMOCRAT organizations and candidates?
https://www.righttovoteks.com/democrat-donors
Follow the donor money.
If you are a Republican, are you sure you want to vote NO?
No one can say that billionaires are not funding Democrats. Ahem, George Soros, etc.
It's a fact: The rich and elite fund Democrats. And NO Democrat is upset about big donors as long as they fund Democrats.
When a vacancy occurs on the Kansas Supreme Court, a nine-member nominating commission selects three finalists from a pool of applicants. The commission includes five attorneys, who are members of the Kansas bar, and four non-attorneys appointed by the Governor. [1]
The Governor must choose one of the three nominees. If the Governor declines, the Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court makes the appointment. [2]
According to the non-partisan Ballotpedia, Kansas is the only state that uses a bar-controlled commission—where attorneys elected by the state bar hold a majority of seats—to select Supreme Court nominees. [3]
However, 20 other states use some form of a nominating commission in their selection process. These commissions vary:
10 states have governor-controlled commissions
12 states use hybrid commissions with no single group in control
The most common method is election.
13 states use nonpartisan elections.
8 states use partisan elections.
Supporters of the current model, which they refer to as “merit selection” argue that lawyers are best equipped to select members to the State’s Highest Court. [4] They also contend that the nomination committee helps insulate justices from political influence, allowing decisions to be based on law rather than politics.[5]
Critics argue that the current system is “undemocratic” because it gives members of the state bar disproportionate influence over the nomination process. They note that Kansas is an outlier in having a “bar-controlled commission”, noting that lawyers make up just 0.03% of the state’s population, yet have the ability to effectively shape an entire branch of the state’s government. [6]
Do you know anything about this?
https://www.kansasinformationnetwork.com/2026-Kansas-Constitutional-Amendment
You wrote:
Two people, one lawyer and one non-lawyer from each Congressional District are appointed to the Nominating Commission. That’s the statute - so when someone tells you the Justices are hand-picked by lawyers, they’re LYING TO YOU.
Are they though?
IF what you wrote is true, WHY does the Kansas Supreme Court lean consistently LIBERAL?
To my knowledge, only 1 is currently conservative and there is no current way to make the Supreme Court more balanced to reflect rural, CONSERVATIVE Kansas voters.