Kansas judge rebuts state attorneys’ conflict of interest suggestion in anti-abortion law case

By: Anna Kaminski

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: May 5, 2026

Words: 486

Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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TOPEKA — A Kansas judge declined to pause his decision-making in a consequential abortion law case after state attorneys said his application to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court causes a conflict of interest.

Johnson County District Court Judge K. Christopher Jayaram said Monday in a memo the state’s request appeared “pretextual and without any apparent legal or factual basis.”

Jayaram applied last month to fill a Kansas Supreme Court vacancy created when …

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