TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Sep 3, 2015

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said a decision made Wednesday by a district judge to strike down an administrative law “could effectively and immediately shut off all funding for the judicial branch,” Mother Jones reports. Last year, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a two-year budget that included a clause stating if the court ever struck down the 2014 administrative powers law, funding for the entire court system would be “null and void.” The ruling is on hold until it can be appealed to the state Supreme Court. “We have never seen a law like this before," Randolph Sherman, a lawyer involved in fighting the administrative law, said. "(It) is imperative that we stop it before it throws the state into a constitutional crisis.”