Four Kansas Supreme Court justices targeted for ouster in this year’s election face anti-incumbent sentiment and a backlash over rulings that overturned death sentences for two brothers convicted of infamous multiple murders.
Conservative Republicans hope to give term-limited GOP Gov. Sam Brownback a chance to remake a seven-member court they view as too liberal. Families of victims of what became known as “the Wichita massacre” in 2000 want to remove the justices, and abortion opponents and the Kansas Republican Party have endorsed the ...