News from Kansas that protesters and the media were ejected from the Senate chambers earlier this week during a controversial discussion of Medicaid expansion.

This is reminiscent of recent events in Kentucky.

In 2017, the House of Representatives met behind closed doors to discuss an equally controversial pension report. The House characterized the closed meeting as a majority caucus meeting to which the minority caucus was invited. Only one member, Rep. Jim Wayne, refused to participate. He insisted that a meeting of the full House must be open to the public.

The Bluegrass Institute challenged the House's closed door meeting in an appeal to the Kentucky attorney general and prevailed.

The legislature appealed the attorney general's open meetings decision to the Franklin Circuit Court. The court affirmed the attorney general's decision.

The court's opinion can be found at:

http://www.bipps.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Order-05.09.18-Affirmin…

A year later, members of the Poor People's Campaign were denied entrance to the Capitol under a newly adopted "policy" that has never been released to the public.

Open records issues relating to that policy are currently in the courts.

And this year's legislative session commenced with hastily posted rules of conduct for persons wishing to attend meetings conducted in the legislative chambers.

An op-ed concerning this affront to the public's rights can be found at:

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2019/01/14/k…

Apparently, it is not just Kentucky's legislature that wrestles with the notion of "The Peoples House."