The American Bar Association journal, the ABAJournal, published an article, Citizen-Launched Kan. Grand Juries Pursue Abortion & Porn Cases, stating that “An almost-forgotten law in Kansas that allows citizens to convene grand juries reportedly has become a tool for local conservatives to use to force prosecutors to pursue abortion and pornography cases.”
The law governing citizen grand juries is Kansas Code 22-3001.
“A grand jury shall be summoned in any county within 60 days after a petition praying therefor is presented to the district court, bearing the signatures of a number of electors equal to 100 plus 2% of the total number of votes cast for governor in the county in the last preceding election…the judge or judges of the district court of the county in which the petition is presented shall provide instructions to the grand jury regarding its conduct and deliberations…At the conclusion of your inquiry and determination, you will return either a no bill of indictment or a true bill of indictment.”
This 2008 publication is a timely reminder of how a fundamental right that citizens in the state of Kansas have to create a citizen grand jury is distorted by ideological bias.
An opinion piece entitled Remove the American Bar Association from accreditation of lawyers and law schools “the authors provide copious evidence that the ABA is indeed a left-wing interest group and that the more and more it has become a leftist lobby, the fewer and fewer the number of lawyers who actually join it.”
2023: Abolish the Standing “Requirement” in Federal Courts, ” Americans, well those of us paying attention to the rot and tyranny in Washington, DC and our federal judicial system, hear a case is thrown out because some federal judge decides the plaintiff(s) do not have “standing” to bring the case. I see it as an escape for gutless judges who are either too afraid of a particular case or are in the closet partisan puppets.”
But the Brunson case is not an example of a corrupted judiciary as analyzed by Adam Carter and Tracy Beanz: “We have read the lawsuit filed by the Brunson brothers. In our honest opinion, it does not seem to have any basis in constitutional law. Frankly speaking—as found by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in their dismissal—it’s “frivolous…Now we will be the first to admit our constitutional processes are not functioning as our founders intended. We are only speaking to how the system was designed to function. Under our system of separation of powers and “checks and balances,” the Legislative Branch (Congress) is the only one with the power to remove sitting members of the other two branches—or sitting members of Congress itself.”
In October 2022, the Georgia supreme court ruled in favor of “Sons of Confederate Veterans et al. V Henry County Board of Commissioners.
Jovan Pulitzer says that this is a “monumental” decision in that the injury can be generalized rather than viewed only as an individual injury and it can impact voters.
The court stated that “Unlike federal law, however, that injury need not always be individualized; sometimes it can be a generalized grievance shared by community members, especially other residents, taxpayers, voters, or citizens…Georgia has long recognized that members of a community, whether as citizens, residents, taxpayers, or voters, may be injured when their local government fails to follow the law. Government at all levels has a legal duty to follow the law; a local government owes that legal duty to its citizens, residents, taxpayers, or voters (i.e., community stakeholders), and the violation of that legal duty constitutes an injury that our case law has recognized as conferring standing to those community stakeholders, even if the plaintiff suffered no individualized injury.”
As this case continues to slowly make its way through the Georgia supreme court system, citizens continue to be frustrated by judges refusing to adjudicate evidence from the November 2020 elections due to a lack of “standing”.
This grass roots frustration has increased as a result of the case of Kari Lake’s challenge to Katie Hobbs in the Arizona Governor’s race in November 2022.
The judge dismissed her case for lack of evidence of her last two claims of misconduct by Maricopa County election officials. And this was after he threw out eight of her other claims of evidence of misconduct.
40% of Americans Think 2020 Election Was Stolen, Just Days Before Midterms.
Therefore, the interest in citizens grand juries as an alternative to the current state and federal grand jury system chosen and managed by state and federal attorney generals and judges is not an ideological preoccupation of conservatives but rather a legitimate interest of all Americans from both liberal and conservative camps.
