Sat next a lawyer from the ADF at a luncheon today. Wish I had known this. Very cool. It was a lunch of the Federalist Society with Gov. Sam Brownback speaking. He spoke about the new system passed by the legislature to make the Kansas method of appointing judges like the federal system. The old system left the power mostly in the hands of the bar association which in Kansas as in most places, is more liberal than the population. So you can imagine that many of the lawyers are not happy with him. Some of them crashed this meeting and were pretty hostile. The governor handled them very nicely. When I mean “crashed” - any one can go if they pay $45.00. No one was even taking tickets at the door which I had at the ready.
How could anyone ever get to be a judge without being a Federalist or a Constitutionalist? How did we let that happen?