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On Thursday, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill that threatens the entire state's judiciary with destruction if it rules against a law he favors. Brownback has spent much of his tenure attempting to curb the state supreme court and consolidate power in the executive branch. Thursday's startling maneuver suggests the deeply conservative governor has no compunction about simply obliterating separation of powers when another branch of government gets in his way.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/08/kansas_governor_sam_brownback_threatens_to_defund_judiciary_if_it_rules.html
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
Gothmog
(146,029 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)in this stupid state.
tridim
(45,358 posts)My parents admitted that they screwed up voting for him, which is the most rare of political realizations in Kansas. My parents have never admitted that in their six decades of voting Republican.
He does have full-support from the Kochs and ALEC, and the power that comes with it.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)this time. What happened? There is a lot of suspicion, and some evidence, of vote fixing through the electronic voting machines.
irisblue
(33,067 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Someone should bring HIM up on charges!!!
still_one
(92,552 posts)marmar
(77,131 posts)gordianot
(15,261 posts)moondust
(20,030 posts)Maybe an Enabling Act isn't far off?