The Kansas Supreme Court released a majority opinion Friday suggesting that the state Constitution's Bill of Rights does not include a right to vote.
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.
In fact, Justice Caleb Stegall, writing for the majority, said that the dissenting justices wrongly accused the majority of ignoring past precedent, holding that the court has not identified a 'fundamental right to vote' within the state constitution. 'It simply is not there,' Stegall wrote. Justice Eric Rosen, one of the three who dissented, shot back: 'It staggers my imagination to conclude Kansas citizens have no fundamental right to vote under their state constitution.
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