The Kansas Supreme Court's majority has held that there is no state constitutional right to vote in the state.

The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election.

But it was the ballot signature verification measure’s majority opinion — which stated there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights — that drew fiery dissent from three of the court’s seven justices.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
    191·
    6 months ago

    I am sure the originalists will point out that there was no Republican party when the constitution was written. Therefore that could not have been the meaning.

    /s

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Well, there was the Democratic Republican party, founded by Jefferson and Madison. Interestingly enough, and perhaps inevitably, that party effectively split into the Democrats and Republicans. There’s Whigs in there and such, the absorbtion of competing parties, etc, but the ancestry is pretty clear.

      It wasn’t technically there in 1776 but 1792 ain’t bad.