Litigation

KS Justice to Face Ouster Campaign

By Peter Hardin

Justice Carol Beier of the Kansas Supreme Court (photo at right) faces an ouster campaign based on her writing of abortion rulings on behalf of the court’s majority.

Kansans for Life will campaign against the justice’s re-election this fall, its executive director said, according to an article in ABA Journal.

State Rep. Marti Crow, a Democrat and a supporter of abortion rights, told the Associated Press the effort amounted to a “vendetta” against Justice Beier, and “It hurts the independence of the justice system, which is very key to everybody’s rights.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).