“Nonetheless, at [Sen.] Holmes’ request, the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a bill Tuesday that spells out additional grounds for impeachment, including breach of the public trust or judicial ethics and ‘attempting to subvert fundamental laws and introduce arbitrary power.’ The bill also specifically targets ‘attempting to usurp the power of the legislative or executive branch.’
“That last provision opens wide the opportunity for two branches of the Kansas governor to gang up on the other in arbitrary, unethical and damaging ways. For instance, the governor and some legislators have been highly critical of Supreme Court rulings on funding for public schools. It’s understandable that they are frustrated with those rulings, but, if they want to change that situation, the proper action is to address the constitutional provision on which the court is basing its decisions. The Legislature has the power to initiate changes in the Kansas Constitution, but it shouldn’t have broad power to impeach Supreme Court justices whose interpretation of the constitution isn’t to their liking.
“The three branches of government are intended to operate independently and provide checks and balances for one another. It’s natural for there to be some tension among those branches, but what this bill and other measures that would change the appointment process for Supreme Court justices would do is to fundamentally alter the balance of power among the branches and potentially make the court far more vulnerable to political agendas.”
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