“The Kansas Supreme Court, through Justice Beier in her writing, are misrepresenting the record: by providing false inferences, by engaging in assumptions not in law, and by assuming things without a record that would be inviting additional challenges,” said Kline. “That effectively resulted in the obstruction of a legitimate investigation and prosecution of the abortion clinics.”
“That has been the testimony of this morning. That testimony stands because it is the truth, and it causes grave concern,” said Kline.
At least two justices (one of them Beier) were obligated to recuse themselves from the cases involving the abortion clinics, said Kline, in order to comply with judicial rules designed to protect the impartiality of the courts.
“Justice Beier, formerly worked for the National Women’s Law Center, which represented interests supporting abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood,” he stated. “She should have recused herself from consideration of these issues.”
Kline said Beier’s Supreme Court opinions in three cases, which were the focus of this morning’s testimony, misrepresented the record, engaged in false speculation, and generated “hysteria about patient privacy,” at the expense of sexually abused children.
“Not one patient has been identified in eight years, while I was investigating. Hundreds of child sexual abuse cases went un-investigated. That is not only frustrating – it is wrong. And I hope the people of Kansas remedy that,” said Kline.
But Kline also disclosed for the first time that Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss also should have recused himself “on cases involving myself.” Kline said that during his time as attorney general he “was presented evidence of Justice Nuss violating the judicial conduct of ethics” and “was forced to file a complaint” against the Chief Justice. Nuss was later admonished for his actions.
“My filing of that complaint, his knowledge of that – and it is something that I have not made public before – should have caused Justice Nuss to recuse himself from consideration of matters involving myself. And I hope the court takes proper action in the future and does just that.”
But Kline said that Kansans should find the judicial interference by the Kansas Supreme Court “alarming.”
“There have been three ‘probable cause’ findings that clinics violated the law. Yet none of the allegations now through eight years have ever reached open court,” he said.
He said the Kansas Supreme Court’s actions “in which the criminal defendants got to put myself and my staff under oath” over his ongoing investigation into their potential criminal wrongdoing was “unprecedented.”
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Denis Boyles long ago wrote about the persecution of Kline and what’s the matter with Kansan judicial madness.
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