Robed Royalty Suspend Kansas Grand Jury Law

Flash …KS Supreme Court suspends Kansas law…Citizens Grand Jury by Petition usurped…

According to today’s news story below the Kansas Supreme court has issued a temporary injunction against a grand jury in Wichita from being impaneled to investigate allegations of abortionist George Tiller…

Indications seem to be that the KS Supreme court wants those same Wichita judges that found the citizen petition to be in proper form to now go beyond the boundary’s set by the legislature, stop the summoning of a lawfully petitioned grand jury and have select judges inquire now into the allegations. This crosses the line as stated by the KS Statute that the judges only authority at this point is to find the petition in order, or not. The very intent of the grand jury process is for the people to inquire into probable cause when authorities will not. Corruption is at the heart of the reason for a citizens grand jury petition system.

Excerpt from KS Statute 22-3001 “The judge or judges of the district court of the county shall then consider the petition and, if it is found that the petition is in proper form and bears the signatures of the required number of electors, a grand jury shall be ordered to be summoned.”

Possible legislative showdown in Kansas? Federal court intervention? Stay Strong, Phillip

Court temporarily halts Tiller grand jury

The Associated Press

Published Friday, October 26, 2007

The Kansas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the start of a Sedgwick County grand jury to investigate abortion provider George Tiller.

The court’s order today stops the grand jury from starting its work until the court can decide if the panel should convene. The grand jury had been scheduled to begin its work next Tuesday.

The order by Chief Justice Kay McFarland was in response to a petition filed by Dr. Tiller, who is one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers.

Abortion opponents accuse Tiller of violating a 1998 state law restricting late-term abortions, an allegation his attorneys repeatedly have said is unfounded.

The Grand Jury Gap

By Phillip Cosby:

If there is one thing we all as Americans are dismayed at it is the decreasing number of citizens engaged and participating in our government. Is it that they feel increasingly disconnected or powerless to effect change?

In the last four years in Kansas about nine grand juries have been petitioned by the people. Some would tell you the sky is falling and scream “abuse” even when those grand juries, after examining the evidence are delivering indictments. Is the unpredictable chaos of common people being within reach of a lever of power unsettling to elites?

Let’s compare apples with apples. In Kansas, grand juries are only impaneled by a petition of the people or by a majority of the judges in a particular judicial district (even more rare). In Missouri grand juries are “standing,” that is in many MO counties (like Clay & Jackson Counties) every six months a new grand jury is sworn in. Missouri prosecutors are constantly putting cases before those GJs to seek indictments. In Missouri in any given year there are hundreds of Grand Juries. It is commonplace, routine... almost boring. Nine grand juries in Kansas in four years vs. hundreds in a year in Missouri. “Abuse” is not the correct word in Kansas, it is novel, rare and unique.

Who in America would demand that such a pure form of access to the judicial branch of government be moved further out of reach of the people? The Kansas legislators believed that the common people should have access to power and have put within their reach one way to touch the system. Just because some special interests don’t like a subject of investigation, would you deny the people that right of access to power or leave all power in the hands of elites. Sometimes you just got to trust common people to move when elected officials don’t have the political character, a true measure of citizen concerns or the will to enforce the law. Do we really want to relegate all power to the state?

Battle won in war against Topeka porn outlet

Significant breaking news out of the Shawnee County “Promotion of Obscenity” case (Topeka)! The pornography outlet “Priscilla’s” boasted that the Topeka grand jury indictments and charges would not make it through the pre-trial motions and claimed the case would be tossed by a judge for various reasons, including Priscilla’s attorneys objections that the Kansas “Promotion of Obscenity” law was unconstitutional.

Now the good part…the Shawnee County judge upheld the case on ALL points and it has survived the pre-trial objections! Now “Priscilla’s” will be scheduled to face criminal charges in an open trial with no more delays.

Here are the written words of the Shawnee County District Attorney, Robert Hecht in a letter to the citizens of Topeka dated August 21^st…

“ I believe this ruling will be controlling and adhered to by all other judges in all other similar cases pending within this judicial district.” (There are five more pornography outlets facing the same criminal charges in Shawnee County) “It may well also be persuasive in other judicial districts in Kansas where similar cases may be pending”…”I trust you agree with the efforts of this office in these regards and will remain involved in the effort to improve our community and the safety of our citizens.”

GOOD JOB TOPEKA CITIZENS, YOU ARE IN THE LEAD!!! Priscilla’s is the biggest pornography chain we face.

When ”Priscilla’s” in Wichita was indicted by Wichita’s grand jury the owner of the Priscilla’s chain called and threatened the Mayor of Wichita that he would remove all of their pornography outlets from Wichita and possibly Kansas to punish the Kansas economy. The mayor offered to help him pack and laughed.

Pray for the cases and grand juries in Wichita, Kansas City metro (MO & KS) and other communities that have the salt to take a stand against this moral cancer, this wicked stronghold, to prevail in earthly and heavenly places. “On earth as it is in heaven”. Silence is consent.

STAY STRONG!

Phillip Cosby

Executive Director, Kansas City Office

National Coalition For the Protection of Children & Families

Sebelius' pathetic non-action on Kline appointment

From today's opinion page in the Capital Journal:

Not people's will

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' refusal to sign the certificate of appointment of Phill Kline as Johnson County district attorney was a slap in the face not only to Mr. Kline, but also to the duly elected Republican precinct committeemen and women who selected him. These men and women were simply fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to them by the people who elected them, their neighbors.

Of course, Gov. Sebelius claims that she did so "out of a deep and enduring respect for the will of the people." Since when does she care about the "will of the people"?

This is the same governor who twice vetoed a reasonable abortion clinic licensing bill that passed both chambers of the Legislature, who vetoed a concealed weapons bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature, and who vetoed a late-term abortion reporting bill. Does Gov. Sebelius think that the duly elected representatives and senators who passed these bills weren't doing the "will of the people"?

It is common knowledge that late-term abortionist George Tiller spent a lot of money to help defeat Phill Kline in the attorney general's race. The abortion industry had no such influence on the precinct committeemen and women who chose Mr. Kline for district attorney. Gov. Sebelius' whining about their selection makes it obvious that the only person whose "will" she cares about is George Tiller.

JEANNE GAWDUN, Topeka

Dr. Tiller's stranglehold on Kansas

The breadth of the influence of Dr. Tiller "the baby killer" on government officials in Kansas has been exposed as local judges have shut down Attorney General Phill Kline's efforts to begin legal proceedings against him for not reporting crimes committed resulting in pregnancies that were terminated in his abortion mill.

Read the details here.

There is also a link to a spot you can view a composite of eight shows in which Fox News' Bill O'Reilly has placed his spotlight on the abortion industry in Kansas.

Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Partial Birth Abortion Ban

Well, time for a refreshing change of subject...

The Bush administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold a ban on the horrendous practice of partial birth abortion. Courts have struck down the law that Congress passed and Bush signed in 2003. Hopefully, now with a beefed up slightly more conservative court, we can get a Supreme court ruling that finally puts an end to this type of infanticide.