Five justices on the Kansas Supreme Court face a retention vote next month. Commentator William Jennings Bryan Oleander says that despite discontent with recent court rulings, it's in the best interest of Kansas to keep them on the bench.
The comments of William Jennings Bryan Oleander, otherwise known as Tom Averill, writer-in-residence at Washburn University in Topeka.
Production assistance for this commentary was provided by KPR news intern Courtney Bierman, a sophomore studying journalism at the University of Kansas.