Voters in the red state overwhelmingly rejected a referendum designed to overturn Kansas’ constitutional right to abortion on Tuesday.
The Legislature’s GOP supermajority had attempted to amend the Kansas constitution to change the way the state’s Supreme Court justices are chosen. It was an effort to fill the bench with more conservatives after a slate of rulings that roiled Republican lawmakers, most notably a 2019 decision upholding the right to abortion.
Voters dismissed that amendment by more than 25 percentage points.
Tuesday’s result is reminiscent of the state’s 2022 referendum, months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, which saw Kansas voters uphold abortion rights by...
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