The Kentucky Supreme Court Thursday unanimously struck down the state’s Republican-backed pension overhaul, which means the issue that has guided Kentucky’s political conversation for the past year will remain in the spotlight. The ruling puts Kentucky politicians back at square one as they search for solutions to address mounting costs from one of the worst-funded pension systems in the nation. So what’s next? The Supreme Court struck down the pension bill on narrow terms, focusing on how the bill was passed rather than the contents of the bill itself. For example, neither the Supreme Court nor Franklin Circuit Judge Philip Shepherd touched arguments over whether the bill violated state laws that protect benefits promised to public workers.