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Micah Kubic, executive director of ACLU of Kansas, said, "This is a blatant attack by the legislators on our justices, and it’s part of a decades-long pattern of politicians attempting to punish the judicial branch for issuing decisions on education and reproductive freedom that they disagree with. ... Partisan elections quickly become fights between out-of-state, big money interests. These elections become less about the voters and constituents of the state and more an opportunity for out-of-state big money interests to wage war against one another. And now, lawmakers would like our state’s highest court to be smack in the middle of that war."

The ACLU of Kansas found the eight closed locations accounted for 19% of all early votes cast in the 2024 general election.

The Kansas American Civil Liberties Union stressed in a social media post last week that bystanders would only be able to record interactions by law enforcement outside of the 25-foot buffer zone.

Micah Kubic, the President for the Kansas United for Impartial Courts, and Elizabeth Patton, the regional director for the Americans for Prosperity Kansas, shared what you’re really voting for when you see or hear something that’s telling you to vote no or vote yes.

But opponents like the ACLU of Kansas say it infringes on First Amendment rights.

ICE currently holds more than 60,000 detainees nationally. President Trump and ICE administrators say deportation policy mostly removes those who committed crimes, but media investigations of federal data, and the American Immigration Council and the ACLU say the vast majority of detainees were never accused of crimes.

“Even though Mr. Carvajal-Muñoz complied and posed no safety threat,” the organization wrote, “agents smashed his window with a crowbar, dragged him out of the car at taser-point, handcuffed him, and placed him in the unmarked SUV. … Carvajal-Muñoz was afraid for his life, especially after seeing what had happened to Renée Good in Minnesota two weeks before.”

The American Civil Liberties Union in 2024 attempted to abolish the death penalty in Kansas, citing its ineffectiveness in deterring crime and propensity for racial biases.

“I think it’s pretty clear that the reason for the change is to move us away from a system of fair and impartial justice and instead towards one where justices are politicized,” said Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas.