Kansas voters reject another attempt to reshape the state’s abortion landscape

IKansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made members of the state’s Supreme Court electable by popular vote — a seemingly technical issue that had become a proxy battle for the future of abortion rights in the state, Decision Desk HQ projects. Conservatives in the state’s Republican-led legislature put

The Republican-controlled Legislature referred a constitutional amendment to the primary ballot after the state Supreme Court had ruled against the party on issues like abortion.

Voters in Kansas are projected to reject a ballot measure Tuesday that would allow the direct election of state Supreme Court justices — a blow to conservatives unhappy with the high court’s liberal slant, according to Decision Desk HQ. Under current law, the governor appoints new justices who then face retention elect