Press Releases

May 30 - Kansas United for Impartial Courts rounded up volunteer door-knockers in Lenexa and Wichita to encourage people to vote Aug. 5 against selecting Kansas Supreme Court justices by general election. 

May 26 - The August vote on Kansas Supreme Court justice selection will affect the course of our shared government and civic life for an age. That sounds like a big, overarching statement, but it has the benefit of being true.  

May 15 - A pair of retired Kansas Supreme Court justices made a compelling case Thursday against politicizing the state’s highest court — and why voters should reject the Aug. 4 constitutional amendment.

April 19 - The process by which Kansas chooses its state supreme court justices goes back almost exactly 70 years, to the carefully timed resignation of Chief Justice William Smith on December 31, 1956.

August 10, 2025 - Kansas has a lot to be proud of this past week — not just because we have an outstanding new state Supreme Court justice in Larkin Walsh, but because the process that led to her appointment continues to work exactly as it should.

July 12, 2025 - This session, the Kansas Legislature voted to send Senate Concurrent Resolution 1611 to voters. This proposed constitutional amendment creates the direct partisan political election of Kansas Supreme Court justices. Such elections would be the death knell of an independent judiciary.