Kansas Moves to Rein in Runaway Courts
February 25, 2013
The Kansas Senate has approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit the ability of state courts to act as legislators by providing that all school funding decisions be made by the Legislature. A recent ruling by the Shawnee County District Court that the current school funding levels are “unconstitutional” – effectively ordering a $400 million per year tax increase – has already spurred calls for changing the way judges are selected to make them more accountable. Proponents of the new amendment say reform is needed to stop “appropriation by litigation” and restore the power over funding decisions to the elected representatives of the people.
Posted by Dan Pero in the categories: Kansas
One Response to “Kansas Moves to Rein in Runaway Courts”
I have lived out of state for decades but I was born and lived in Wilson County Kansas until I entered the military in 1954. However I inherited several parcels of farmland in Wilson County Kansas when my father passed away. Dad’s demise and his duly and legally prepared and recorded Transfer On Death Deeds -, legally parceling and conveying his “Last Wishes” to my siblings and I, immediately served as a very expensive, frustrating and infuriating –, grassroots education on what the Trial Lawyers in Kansas and across America are getting away with. It also served to prove that there is no way that an estate owner can “lawyer proof” his/her “last wishes” and keep the “sticky fingered” lawyers from grabbing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of the family estate via prostituting their legal integrity to disgruntled heir plaintiffs in blatantly fraudulent “disgruntled heir” lawsuits. In this Wilson County Kansas Case #2006-/CV-25 our “defense” attorney alone grabbed almost $60,000 of our inheritance as “attorney fees” that we could not take one penny of a tax deduction on.
There is a lot more to this case and the serial litigant professional plaintiff but this case is classic of why millions of Americans –. “on both sides of the law” harbor such contempt and hatred for the system and for the self governed, self policed charlatans who own, operate and exploit the legal process as their “sawed off shot gun”. I have no doubt that this double standard “value system” in America’s Judiciary, civil and criminal –, plays a major but un-indicted and unchecked role in triggering a lot of “contempt for the law, back lash violence” that the courts, their operatives and their lapdog media blame on other “villains”–, “child abuse, drugs, booze etc”
Ivan L Fail, U S Department of Justice retiree , Sparta, Missouri