“We also are looking at this situation in the context of the judicial retention election where the five of the seven justices of the Supreme Court are up for retention,” said Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat who sits on the House Judiciary Committee. “This is part of a continuing effort to intimidate the courts by threatening their jobs, by threatening their authority, by threatening their funding.
“And it’s very unfortunate that many of my Republican colleagues and my old law school classmate, the governor, apparently do not respect the rule of law and think the courts will succumb to these types of tactics. And I’m confident that our court will not.”