Voters in Kansas rejected a proposal to start electing Supreme Court justices, while Missourians declined to make it harder to amend the State Constitution. By Mitch Smith and Ann Hinga Klein Ann ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The back of a ballot shows the Kansas constitutional amendment question regarding supreme court justices on Tuesday. - Evert ...

The rejection of a measure to begin electing justices was a victory for abortion rights groups who defended the Kansas high court’s ruling that abortion was protected in the state constitution. By ...

Idaho voters will decide whether to roll back the state’s abortion ban, the secretary of state told the group behind the initiative in a letter Monday, joining three other states where abortion will ...

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Kansas 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 ...

On August 4, voters in Kansas and Missouri voted down ballot measures that would have opened the door for attacks on our democracy. In both states, politicians referred measures to the ballot to ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The big headline out of Tuesday’s primaries was the slim victory of former public ...

John Billman holds a sign explaining his opposition to a proposal that would make it harder for voters to approve citizen-initiated constitutional amendments in Jefferson City, Mo., on Sept. 10, 2025.