A looming constitutional crisis in Kansas??

[-Jrabbit]

Seriously scratching my head on what point TMM is trying to make.

"Brownback is like FDR."

[DaShi]

Seriously?

[Dinner]

Republicans should all be killed.

[MrFun]

So?

Seriously scratching my head on what point TMM is trying to make.

Yeah. Not sure what FDR's action with U.S. Supreme Court has to do with this, but if TMM wants to run with that, who am I to stop him?

Maybe he's saying two wrongs make a right?

[kentonio]

For those who may not be familiar.

I wasn't familiar. Out of interest, how do you feel about what happened back then?

[The Mad Monk]

I think it fell out the right way. The court is there to keep a check on headlong rushes that cause more damage than they cure. Same for here, Kansas legislature should leave the court alone.

[The Mad Monk]

Yeah. Not sure what FDR's action with U.S. Supreme Court has to do with this, but if TMM wants to run with that, who am I to stop him?

Maybe he's saying two wrongs make a right?

Maybe I'm saying that if it weren't the Republicans doing it, you woundn't be mentioning it?

[loinburger]

MrFun: IMO the appropriate thing to do here is to either say "yeah FDR was a douche for dicking around with the court," or to say "FDR was justified in dicking around with the court because [insert reasons here]." Saying "I have no idea why you're comparing one instance of dicking around with the court with another instance of dicking around with the court" is disingenuous at best.

[kentonio]

I think it fell out the right way. The court is there to keep a check on headlong rushes that cause more damage than they cure. Same for here, Kansas legislature should leave the court alone.

Tend to agree, although the article suggests that FDR taking the stance he did pushed the court into being more willing to accept the right of elected politicians to pass legislation too. Seems like a pretty awesome result all around.

[DinoDoc]

Isn't it easier to simply repeal whatever law the court is using to say that the school budget should be on autopilot without input from the state legislature?

[giblets]

If the law in question is part of the state constitution then maybe not.

[DinoDoc]

Is it? That seems like an odd thing to put in a State Constitution.

[giblets]

The current battle began in 2010, when a coalition of school districts sued the state, seeking to force the Legislature to reinstate school funding that was cut during the Great Recession, under a provision of the state constitution that mandates adequate levels of school funding.

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But Brownback's allies have thus far failed to muster the supermajority needed to change the constitution, even though Republicans hold well more than two-thirds of both chambers.

If the state constitution mandates "adequate levels of school funding" then presumably there is some minimum level of school funding that they can't go below. I don't know how they determine what "adequate levels" are.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, from the original article:

under a provision of the state constitution that mandates adequate levels of school funding

I wonder how difficult a Constitutional Amendment is in Kansas?

[DinoDoc]

Damn you, -Jrabbit! TLDR failed me.