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Republicans Want Voters to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices and Move Court to the Right

 Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to elect state Supreme Court justices rather than have the governor appoint them, a push from conservatives who have chafed for years over court decisions they disagreed with on issues such as abortion, school funding and the death penalty.

If the constitutional amendment passes, supporters hope to elect at least four conservative, anti-abortion justices to the seven-member court by 2033.

Kansas is considering the change amid concerns that increasingly contentious and expensive judicial elections in other states are making their courts more partisan and less independent. Spending in a single state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin last year topped $100 million.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, 

 a term-limited Democrat who opposes the measure, said gerrymandering and dark money have put the Legislature out of step with the state and, “to think you can make the judicial branch a part of that dysfunctional system is frightening.”

GOP lawmakers cite multiple rulings by Kansas courts over the past two decades as reasons for change.

Most recently, a district court judge earlier this month reinstated a three-day grace period for voters to return mail ballots after Election Day, which GOP lawmakers had eliminated. Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, seeking the Republican nomination for governor, called the decision “outrageous” and urged people to vote yes on the ballot question.

The same judge — a finalist to fill the most recent Supreme Court vacancy — blocked enforcement of a 2025 law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Masterson described him as “radical.”

The list of rulings Republicans criticize also includes rulings on education funding back to 2004. Supreme Court decisions forced lawmakers to increase funding to comply with the state constitution.

“If we elect our Supreme Court, they won't force you to spend money on schools,” Masterson said in remarks in November to a conservative group, the Marion County Patriots for Liberty, the Marion County Record reported.

Electing state Supreme Court justices gained currency among Republicans after a 2022 public vote affirming the high court’s landmark 2019 decision that Kansas' bill of rights guarantees bodily autonomy and access to abortion. Total spending by both sides has exceeded $12 million.

Legislators who worked to overturn the Supreme Court's protections, including Masterson, helped write this year's proposal.

Seven weeks after that 2022 vote, Attorney General Kris Kobach, then a GOP candidate for the office, told a Republican club in Wichita that electing justices would “slowly and quietly” put anti-abortion justices on the high court.

The vote-yes campaign's biggest donor — providing $1.7 million toward the campaign's $3.7 million in spending — is a Nashville-based nonprofit that supports Republican candidates, groups and causes. Kansans for Life, the state's most influential anti-abortion group, has spent at least $87,000 over the past 11 days on mailers and texts.

“Kansans can bring an end to this reign of abortion by voting ‘yes,’” Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said in an editorial written by a staffer on the anti-abortion group’s website.

Meanwhile, the national and state affiliates for abortion provider Planned Parenthood contributed another $1.6 million toward the vote-no campaign's $8 million-plus in spending.

Jamie Swan, an engineer and college teaching assistant who knocked on doors for abortion rights in 2022, is doing the same to try to halt the proposal.

“I really believe that this is just a power grab,” she said.

Backers of the Kansas proposal brush aside arguments that electing the justices will give wealthy donors control over the Supreme Court.

“Globally and over history, even in its imperfection, the best system is democracy,” said Elizabeth Patton, state director of the low-tax, small-government group Americans for Prosperity, which has spent $935,000 to promote the vote-yes campaign.

Twenty-two states elect their top court’s judges, eight in partisan races. Governors in 26 states appoint them. In South Carolina and Virginia, legislators pick the justices.

Kansas elected justices for nearly 100 years before voters amended the state constitution in 1958. The governor now picks one of three finalists named by a nominating commission controlled by attorneys. Legislators have no role.

A review of every state’s current and past constitutions shows that the last state to add an amendment like the one Kansas is contemplating was Mississippi in 1914. Since then, 18 states’ amendments went the opposite way.

Voters weigh in every six years on whether a justice remains on the bench through a yes-or-no ballot question, but they’ve never booted a sitting justice. Conservatives say that means justices face no consequences for errant decisions.

Retirements and deaths allowed the term-limited Kelly to appoint four of the current justices. Recently, she picked a district court judge who blocked enforcement of longstanding abortion restrictions in 2023.

“We don’t have a good way to fight back,” said state Sen. Mike Thompson, a conservative Kansas City-area Republican, who backs the measure.

Obama-Appointed Judge Faces Impeachment After Outrageous TPS Ruling

Another day, another ridiculous court ruling.

 

After Obama-appointed Judge Allison Burroughs blocked President Trump from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somalis on Friday, the reaction from Congress was unusually swift.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) announced plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the activist judge on Monday.  

“SCOTUS made it very clear that lower courts cannot suspend TPS. Yet, an Obama-appointed judge is defying the Court and the Constitution in an attempt to subvert the will of the President," he said in a statement.

"This judicial activist’s obstruction of the people’s will must be stopped. Judge Burroughs must be impeached," he added.

"On Monday I will file Articles of Impeachment against Judge Allison Burroughs for her unconstitutional act of Judicial Activism!!! Enough is enough, Americans First NOT 3rd world migrants," he wrote. 

General Counsel James Percival also reprimanded Judge Burroughs over the judicial strong-arming. 

"Judge Allison Burroughs just entered yet another order preventing the termination of Somalia TPS. There is no serious debate about what is going on in these cases — defiance, obstruction, and delay," Percival wrote on X.

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Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan said Burroughs' order inappropriately grants emergency relief despite legally defective claims.

"I looked at the amended complaint in the Somalia TPS case," Wessan wrote on X. "The district judge has entered a novel 'administrative stay' to sort out the claims. She has declared the TPS termination 'void' for now, while deciding whether any of the claims can justify a more permanent pause."

"The whole thing turns the law upside down, but in part is to give the judge time to look at the claims," he added. "So what are the claims? 4/5 straight up foreclosed by the Supreme Court. #5 is frivolous. Completely inappropriate justification for a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction (which is what, in effect, the so-called administrative stay is)."

Thus we see another unelected rogue judge replace the president's authority over immigration policy with her own. Due to that decision, and the disastrous repercussions it has throughout the judicial branch, she may be impeached.

 

Beautiful: Cornell Brat Who Refused to Work With Jews Gets Brutal Life Lesson From Mom and Dad

We didn't give this schmuck any attention here at RedState when he made headlines a few months back for refusing a summer job offer because the company wanting to hire him was run by a pair of Jewish brothers. But, the kid's parents just went beast mode on him, and that's surely worth a mention.

The kid's name is Austin Franco, and he's a 19-year-old student at Cornell University

 

 who became internet infamous back in June after he turned down a summer internship opportunity at New York City company VryfID because co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn were Jewish.

CEO Gabe Einhorn posted the sordid tale on X, saying a job interview had been offered to Franco via the website Handshake, and Franco responded, "Not interested in working for a Jew. Thanks."

Franco responded to Einhorn's post by shamelessly doubling-down on his Jew hatred: "My experiences with Jews have not been pleasant, both in person and online. This is not to say I havent had positive experiences, but on the aggregate that is not the case. Obviously, the reactions by your community only serves to further prove my point and indicate your post on X was not done in good faith."

If you're thinking, "Wow, his parents must be so proud," we'll get to that in just a second.

 

Unbelievably, a GoFundMe was set up for Franco and it brought in nearly $20,000, with the top donor dishing out $1,776 to support the unabashed antisemite. “His career and financial future is at stake, I ask that you help fund a good Christian man,” the fundraising page stated. 

A fool and his money, as they say ...

Well, as it turns out, Franco's parents were dismayed at their son's abhorrent beliefs and kicked him right to the curb, telling him to be out of their Virginia house by August 1.

Dad Alexander is a Cornell alum and patent lawyer, and Diana is a senior product manager for a banking regulators’ trade association.

They told The Post that they found their son’s behavior reprehensible — and believe he’s fallen victim to dark online influences. 

“We have seen our adult son fall under the influence of extremist online content. It should go without saying that the rest of our family finds the views he has expressed morally repugnant, and he did not derive them in any way from us,” they wrote. 

And, if you guessed that young Franco once again turned to the internet for money, you'd be correct. This time, Franco himself launched a fundraising page, painting himself as a victim of his parents' "conventional life."

I have reiterated that my parents do not share my views, and it seems they no longer wish to provide me with a home to live in. I know the road ahead will be difficult, but this is the path I chose. I could have lived a more conventional life, as my parents did, and perhaps in a different time I would have. However, that is not the world we live in today, and because of that, I chose a different path than most.

I do not regret anything I have done. If I were to die today, I would at least know that I did so believing in myself.

Thank you, and may God be with you.

Bravo to Mr. and Mrs. Franco 

 

 

for drawing a distinct line in the sand with their woefully ignorant and misguided son. From all appearances, they provided him with a privileged upbringing, the kind that most kids can only dream about; his smug betrayal must sting. 

He'll soon run out of other people's money, of course, and will go crawling back to the Bank of Mom and Dad because he clearly won't be able to hack it in the real world. When he does, Mom and Dad should remind him that their branch doesn't do business with antisemites.

 

De Tocqueville Nails It Again: Improper Education Leads to Moral Debauchery

“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self- restraint.”—Alexis de Tocqueville

I have said many times that America’s number one problem today is not political; it is moral and spiritual. We live in an incredibly promiscuous age—worldwide—with every kind of vileness, vice, licentiousness, barbarism, and decadence practiced and exalted by ALL political persuasions. Individual responsibility and a willingness to accept the consequences of one’s own actions are almost unheard of—especially on the perverted, degenerate Left. America has caught this virus and become a selfish, pleasure-loving society, and no society can survive that for long. And the problem appears to be expanding.

The most vital part of any individual’s education is his/her moral education—teaching strong character, self-control and self-discipline, a sense of duty toward others and responsibility towards family, society, and oneself. When a people loses that goal in their education system, they lose their cohesion, their normality, their minds. Noah Webster’s dictum was that “education is useless without the Bible”; in other words, moral education is paramount, and his wisdom has been verified since America booted God and His Book out of our schools and replaced them with atheistic “science,” “diversity,” and “grooming.” The results are manifest in America: rising divorce and crime rates; 40 percent of all births (nearly 70 percent in the black community) are out-of-wedlock, virtually destroying the nuclear family; we have a political party where murdering babies is their most cherished belief (killing non-wanted, “non-essential” sub-humans has always been a cardinal mantra of Leftism). And there is exploding promiscuity in the form of premarital sex, adultery, homosexuality, rape, pornography, and even lust for sex with children. Countless millions of Americans don’t even know what a man and a woman are anymore, or the definition of marriage in God’s eyes. Half the people think they ought to live off the other half, and vote for politicians who love to make it so. That’s the new morality in America, and, not surprisingly, it is tearing the nation apart. And politicians are chief in all of this, and largely the cause of it.

We have stopped looking up for inspiration and guidance, and now look only to ourselves, where self-centeredness and personal indulgence become the be-all of our existence. Too many Americans have been maleducated by those who are equally mis-educated and unrestrained, and who want no restraints, and most Americans are currently too myopic to realize what is happening. This has created a fractured society, and the splintering is growing with no end in sight. How can you have a united people when “every man does that which is right in his own eyes”? That is the very definition of societal chaos and disunion.

And neither political party is pointing us back to moral responsibility. In fact, the Democrats are doing exactly the opposite.

Look at the de Tocqueville quote again for what has happened: our “taste for physical gratification…has grown more rapidly than [our] education.” What a brilliant analysis and 100 percent accurate in modern America. Proper education (moral education) is the only thing (except totalitarian terror) that can put restraints on physical gratification, that can guide the desires all humans have into correct, appropriate channels. And when that education is lacking, “the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint.” Does the Democrat Party (especially) teach any semblance of self-restraint? How can a party that nominates a Graham Platner have any credibility when it comes to moral values, self-restraint, self-sacrifice, duty to others, respect for women, and individual responsibility? Unless your party doesn’t believe in any of those things. Which the Democrats don’t.

The Democrat Party’s essence has become the very opposite of those virtues, and there is a reason for it, folks. Edmund Burke told us what it is:

“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”

If people do not practice self-control, which is the very essence of liberty, then some entity (government) will have to step in and restrict them: “the less of it (personal control) there is within, the more there must be without.” The “controlling power” from “without” is exactly what the Democrats and the Left want—totalitarian government. It is therefore in the interest of the Left to encourage as much debauchery and licentiousness as possible in order to necessitate government intervention and dominance over as many as possible. And a government-run education system is made to order for a people who want government to control everything. A godly, Biblical, moral education restraining “physical gratification” is the last thing the Democrats and the Left desire. And that is a major—the major—reason they hate religion, especially Christianity, so much.

Burke also said, “Whatever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.” We can find truth, unity, freedom, and peace in being directed by God. When “every man does that which is right in his own eyes,” there will never be, there never can be, unity. Or freedom. Or peace.

Can America turn this tragedy around? It certainly can, but we’ll need a wiser set of leaders and a reformed education system, and I currently don’t see either waiting in the wings anytime soon. And an uneducated, selfish, pleasure-loving, debauched, decadent society wouldn’t want them anyway. That’s why Democrats get elected.

 

Trump Halts Massive Iran Attack Plan. Here's Why.

President Donald Trump is pausing plans for a major attack on Iran, he announced on Saturday with the hopes of reviving an agreement with the country. 

The president was mulling whether or not to hit areas that would impact foundational elements of the Islamic Republic’s grid, as well as infrastructure, according to Axios.

“The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II,” Trump posted to Truth Social. 

“Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to. This would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran's nuclear threat,” he continued.

He conditioned that an agreement is required in order to fully prevent an attack of a large scale. 

“Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” the president added, noting that the Israeli government is also on board with the plan.

“Get to work, everybody, and get it DONE,” Trump wrote.

The president reportedly spoke with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday, who cautioned against massive strikes on the Islamic Republic, CNN reported. 

In June, the United States and the Islamic Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding, but it was effectively shattered when Iran began striking cargo ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, which led to a continual U.S. military response.

 

Outgoing GOP Senators Cornyn and Tillis stall Blanche’s AG confirmation

A standoff within the Senate Judiciary Committee has forced the postponement of a planned confirmation vote for Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, with Republican Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis emerging as the primary roadblocks to his nomination.

The impasse reportedly centers on formal written guarantees regarding a Justice Department settlement over President Donald Trump’s tax records lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Cornyn (R-Texas) and Tillis (R-N.C.) are demanding legally binding commitments that the previously proposed $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is permanently dismantled.

 

Additionally, the senators are seeking to narrow the scope of audit protections granted to the president, his family and his business associates. The resistance from the two, both of whom are set to leave the Senate at the conclusion of their terms, exemplifies a rare level of intra-party friction for the Trump administration.

 

Cornyn, serving out his term after losing a primary challenge following Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Tillis, who opted against seeking reelection after recurring disputes with the White House, hold key votes on the Judiciary Committee.

Their insistence on written concessions led Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to delay the committee markup rather than risk seeing Blanche’s nomination fail on the panel floor. 

 

Cornyn has stated that while he and Tillis are spearheading the public pushback, their substantive concerns are allegedly “shared by numerous Republican colleagues” whom they claim remain uneasy about the “scope” of the Trump administration’s legal agreements.

 

At the center of the policy dispute is the settlement signed earlier this year to resolve the president’s lawsuit over leaked tax records. Beyond the payout mechanism for victims of agency weaponization, under the previous Biden administration, the agreement also included some tax-audit immunity provisions.

Although Blanche testified during his confirmation hearing that the payout fund was effectively dead, Cornyn and Tillis have rejected verbal assurances. They have insisted on explicit, written modifications prohibiting any future resurrection of the fund — such as through “breach-of-contract” litigation — and clarifying that audit shields do not apply to future tax filings or future commercial activities.

President Trump responded to the committee delay by proposing on social media to temporarily withdraw Blanche’s nomination until 2027, when both Cornyn and Tillis will no longer be in office.

 

Trump attributed the impasse to political grievances over his primary endorsements, asserting that Blanche could simply remain at the head of the Department of Justice in an acting capacity in the interim.

“If Senators Cornyn and Tillis, both upset because I wouldn’t Endorse them (they lost, and quit, respectively!), aren’t going to approve Todd Blanche, one of the most respected professionals, according to everybody, in the Country, to be the United States Attorney General, then I will keep Todd as Acting A.G., and push hard to get the Anti-Weaponization Bill, which takes care of those who have been so badly treated by the Crooked Joe Biden (and Obuma!) Administration (I get nothing, although I was treated horribly!), PASSED. Todd Blanche was a voice of reason! It will immediately be back on the table, and I will get it done,” Trump said on Truth Social.

In turn, Tillis later argued that the White House’s “hesitation” to codify the fund’s end in writing suggests that officials may be seeking to preserve the mechanism for future use. As the DOJ and Senate leaders continue negotiations, the standoff leaves the future of the permanent directorship unresolved.

 

WNBA's Silencing of Fans Highlights Growing Threat to Free Speech

On July 28, 2026, at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, a member of the Storm ownership confronted two teenage girls who were sitting courtside holding signs in support of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham — an encounter that resulted in the WNBA suspending co-owner Celeste Keaton for five games and fining the team an undisclosed amount. Americans who value free speech should be alarmed that fans — not political operatives — were verbally attacked simply for holding a sign at a professional sporting event.

 

Sophie Cunningham has been straightforward about her view that women’s sports should be protected for biological women, and she’s faced the predictable backlash for speaking plainly on an issue that matters to mothers and coaches across the country. Cunningham said she shows up to play and to be herself, and that her intent is to inspire the next generation, not to be a political lightning rod — yet that honesty has been turned into a target.

What happened to those teenage fans is a small but telling example of how the cultural left polices even teenagers who dare to stand up for girls’ sports. It is disgraceful for an owner — someone who should be setting an example — to berate young supporters and create an environment that chills speech rather than tolerates it. The league’s punishment of the owner only underscores how fraught and politicized the arena has become.

 

This is not an isolated flare-up but the predictable result of turning women’s athletics into a partisan battleground, driven by activist owners and sports organizations that have increasingly behaved like social-justice nonprofits instead of franchises for the fans. The Storm’s public embrace of progressive causes over the years has been well documented, and the league maintains strict in-arena conduct policies that now appear selectively enforced when politics are involved. Everyday Americans who want sports to be a refuge from culture-war theater are being pushed out.

 

Across the region, small rallies in Seattle and Portland have sprung up in support of Cunningham and in defense of women’s locker rooms and fair competition, and organizers have tied this grassroots push to a Washington ballot initiative aimed at preserving girls’ athletics. These are not fringe stunts; they are parents, athletes, and citizens exercising their civic voice on policy that affects Title IX and school sports statewide. Conservatives should recognize that protecting women’s sports is both common sense and a matter of fairness for young female athletes who train and sacrifice to compete.

Hardworking Americans — coaches, moms, and high-school athletes — should not be shouted down by out-of-touch elites or have their concerns caricatured as hatred. If the left wants to have a conversation about inclusion, fine, but it must happen without intimidation and with respect for biological reality and competitive fairness. Stand with the fans and players who want sports to remain a place where girls and women can compete on an even playing field, and show up at the ballot box and the arena to defend that simple, commonsense principle.

 

America's Military Readiness on the Brink as Crises Erupt

America is watching missiles and headlines, but what’s quietly being drained is far more dangerous: our capacity to respond. Conservative voices like Glenn Beck have been warning that the U.S.-Iran standoff is exposing seams in our military and economic foundations that the mainstream media rarely emphasize.

Independent analyses and think tanks warn that America has used vast quantities of high-end munitions and interceptors across multiple theaters, 

 

leaving critical stockpiles dangerously thin as new crises erupt. The Center for a New American Security and reporting from national outlets show that standoff munitions and air defenses — the very tools we need to deter or punish aggression — have been consumed at rates that outpace current replenishment. At current production rates, analysts warn it could take years to rebuild what has been expended.

Congressional reports and GAO findings make it plain that this is not mere conjecture but the result of years of underfunding, delayed modernization, and reliance on just-in-time production for critical weapons. Committees have flagged unmet munitions requirements and constrained industrial base capacity, while watchdogs note billions in drawdowns and emergency transfers that were never fully replenished. This is a supply-chain and strategic failure, and it will cost American lives if not fixed immediately.

The strain is not limited to bullets and missiles; America’s energy cushion is being bled too. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve saw emergency releases in March 2026 that policymakers justified as necessary, but those drawdowns reduce our leverage and resiliency in a world where energy shocks are weaponized. A proud, sovereign America should prioritize energy independence instead of treating reserves like a slush fund to paper over short-term political problems.

Meanwhile, intelligence and reporting indicate Iran preserved much of its missile and drone capability even after initial strikes, and its proxies remain agile and anonymous across the region. Tehran’s ability to launch waves of inexpensive drones while forcing the U.S. to expend far more costly interceptors is a classic asymmetric tactic that exhausts our resources faster than their own. This is not hypothetical — open-source reporting and intelligence assessments have documented Iran’s surviving strike capabilities and pre-war planning.

 

This moment demands accountability. For years a complacent Washington prioritized political theater over actual readiness, and now the bill has come due with depleted stockpiles and a fragile industrial base. Conservatives should push for immediate, specific steps: fully fund munitions procurement, revive domestic manufacturing for critical weaponry and energy, and stop exporting our strategic advantages in favor of short-term optics.

Patriots understand that deterrence is not talk — it’s preparation. If we do not rebuild our reserves, shore up supply lines, and restore American industrial might, we will be weaker, more constrained, and more vulnerable to coercion. Demand leaders who will act like they love this country enough to defend it with strength, not slogans.

 

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