Seated left to right: Hon. Marla J. Luckert, Hon. Lawton R. Nuss, Chief Justice; Hon. Carol A. Beier.
Standing left to right: Hon. Dan Biles, Hon. Eric S. Rosen, Hon. Lee A. Johnson, and Hon. Caleb Stegall.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Supreme Court justice is urging the public not to be swept up by rhetoric about the judiciary.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Justice Marla Luckert’s says the anti-abortion group Kansans for Life disagrees with a small number of the thousands of opinions she has been involved in while sitting on the court.
Her speech Wednesday at the YWCA Network Lunch in Topeka was one of the opening acts in the kind-of, sort-of campaigns several justices will wage during the next few months. The speech came a day after the state’s high court heard arguments in a school finance case that has angered lawmakers and brought calls for voters to toss out the justices.
Most of the justices are up for retention votes on the November ballot.