Intimidating you Judiciary in subservience

The esteemed governor of Kansas found a unique way to attempt to bend the judiciary to his will. If he succeeds and keeps that up he'll realize the dream of hard core conservatives - government by fiat.

The fight between Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas and the state’s judicial branch has escalated, with the governor last week signing into law a bill that could strip state courts of their funding.The measure, at the end of a lengthy bill that allocated money for the judiciary this year, stipulates that if a state court strikes down a 2014 law that removed some powers from the State Supreme Court, the judiciary will lose its funding.

Richard E. Levy, a constitutional law professor at the University of Kansas, likened the measure in the judiciary budget bill to Congress’s passing a law outlawing abortion and then telling the judicial branch that it will lose its funding if it finds the law unconstitutional.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/us/courts-budget-intensifies-kansas-dispute-over-powers.html?ref=us

If you can't win over the judiciary with legal reasoning then just threaten to cut their funding.

A slippery slope. Similar to the techniques used by Hitler, Mussolini and the Bolsheviks to control their judiciaries.

I hope they call his bluff, if for no other reason than principle.

It will get sorted out.. Just like the Roosevelt Supreme Court packing plan b/c he couldnt get parts of the New Deal imposed.

SOguy said:
It will get sorted out.. Just like the Roosevelt Supreme Court packing plan b/c he couldnt get parts of the New Deal imposed.

I like the cut of your jib.

Except this is not a plan only by the executive. He's in cahoots with the legislature.