“Kansas Supreme Court justices spent nearly two hours grilling attorneys on both sides of a case that could determine how independent the judicial branch of government is from the legislative and executive branches.
“At issue is the case of Judge Larry T. Solomon, chief judge of the 30th Judicial District in Kingman County, who is challenging a 2014 law that changes the way chief judges are selected.
“But underlying the case is another new law enacted as part of this year’s judicial budget bill that says if the judicial selection law is overturned, all funding for the judicial branch becomes null and void.”
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