Brownbag remains a douche.

[bnmc2005]

Kansas Governor Brownback issues religious objection executive order

[I tagged this story with 'opinion' because it was posted in Equality Kansas News by the Equality Kansas organisation. They are well informed and quoted the whole order. My personal note: I've known for years that Brownback is not only deeply religious conservative, he is in fact

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[rhysande]

Yup. Last month (early June) Brownback signed into law a measure to defund the state judiciary should any judge rule unconstitutional a previous court reform law that Brownback and his cronies enacted in 2014. The 2014 court reform law (HB 2338), which has been challenged as being unconstitutional and violating the separation of powers system of checks and balances, strips the Kansas Supreme Court of administrative authority over district courts budgets and the selection of local chief justices. Brownback has been accused of trying to manipulate and load the district and lower courts, including hop-scotching unqualified, Koch lackeys into positions ahead of more qualified and experienced lawyers and judges, following the Kansas Supreme Court ruling that Brownback's education slashing budget was unconstitutional. Both the 2014 court reform law and this law are seen as being an act of revenge over the courts' rulings against Brownback's school budget. I have a feeling it also has something to do with the general trend in the Republican Party, most prominately amongst the Evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party, towards fascism and oligarchy.

[crossfire]

Holy crap.