(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Jan. 25, 2016)
If ever there was a week when the predictability of car payments by members of the Kansas Supreme Court and the Kansas Court of Appeals was in jeopardy, it was last week.
Our Supreme Court was slapped 8-1 by the U.S. Supreme Court over its ruling that either overturned or at least delayed the death sentences meted out to the infamous Carr Brothers of 2000 Wichita massacre fame. The Kansas Court wanted more work done on the sentencing of the murderers, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the state court.
And Friday, which was the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that made the choice to have an abortion a constitutionally protected right, the local Court of Appeals couldn’t decide whether last session’s “dismemberment” abortion law is constitutional.