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The bill is opposed by several different organizations that represent the legal profession, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Kansas Organization of State Employees and Planned Parenthood of the Great Plains.

The ACLU of Kansas and its executive director Micah Kubic released a statement in response to the passage of the amendment:

Republican lawmakers are getting closer to changing how Kansas Supreme Court justices are selected.

Opponents of the bill included the ACLU of Kansas, Equality Kansas and Loud Light Civic Action. Parents, teachers and students also spoke out against the bill.

Kunyu Ching, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, agreed. “If the policy has been inconsistently enforced, or if the administration has allowed similar exterior-facing decorations or signs expressing other messages to remain up in other situations, then there may be an

Attorney D.C. Hiegert, civil liberties legal fellow for the ACLU of Kansas, said a decision from a Kansas Court of Appeals panel is expected this month.

Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, called out CoreCivic’s history as a prison operator, saying that it was notorious for violence and violations of human rights.

GEO Group Chairman George Zoley said the company stands to gain up to $1 billion in additional revenue from detaining and surveilling undocumented immigrants.

Rashane Hamby, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, follows testimony in a legislative committee hearing on a proposal her group opposes to have state Supreme Court justices elected rather than appointed by the governor