Kansas Senate President Susan Wagles decision to remove reporters from the Senate chamber a week ago Wednesday was unconstitutional and unnecessary.
She should apologize not to the reporters, necessarily, but to the people of Kansas, who were deprived of a complete and honest account of a dispute inside their state Capitol.
The confrontation unfolded as a group of protesters, angry about the lack of a vote on Medicaid expansion, shouted from a Senate gallery. Wagle called a recess, and officials swept in to remove members of the group.
