Jun 03, 2020

🎥 Gov. responds to decision to reject her appointment to Court of Appeals

Posted Jun 03, 2020 11:00 PM

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican-led Kansas Senate has rejected Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s latest nominee for the state Court of Appeals.

The Senate on Wednesday rejected Kelly’s nomination of longtime state and federal public defender Carl Folsom III, largely because he represented a client convicted of possessing child pornography.

Republican Sen. Molly Baumgardner criticized Folsom for aruging for a reduced sentence for his client. Democratic Sen. Vic Miller challenged Baumgardner, noting that public defenders don’t choose their clients. Kelly called it “political games.”

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TOPEKA—Governor Laura Kelly issued a statement to the press Wednesday afternoon critical of the Kansas Senate’s action to reject the nomination of Carl Folsom to the Kansas Court of Appeals.

The governor made her comments in the Kansas Statehouse, 2nd Floor Rotunda.