As the legislature begins to wind down over the next several weeks before the veto period, there have been fewer bills moving through the legislative process due to a targeted focus of the supermajority to accomplish their legislative agenda.
The fate of the ballot collection period is in question after the legislature passed SB 4 and sent it to Governor Kelly's desk. But If we looked at how to make voting easier instead of always trying to make it harder, what could we achieve?
This legislative session, extremist Senators are pushing a ballot initiative that would politicize the Kansas Supreme Court and open the door for special interest groups to buy their way into the Kansas judiciary.
Civil liberties continue to be the target of the Kansas legislature. This remains a multi-front assault. Attacks on voting access and singling out immigrant communities have all been on the docket this week.
In the first hundred days of a second Trump administration, the public has been overwhelmed with a constant influx of new and increasingly devastating information almost every waking day.