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Judge humiliates Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, orders him to take remedial law classes Printer friendly page Print This
By Jen Hayden | Daily Kos
The Daily Kos
Thursday, Jun 21, 2018

Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach (L) and US Vice President Mike Pence, attend the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on July 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) "Mother's going to be so disappointed" --inside Mike Pence's head

The worst secretary of state in the nation, the architect of the most racist law in modern American history and the man who happens to be Trump’s voter suppression chief (before the sham voter fraud commission was embarrassingly disbanded) had yet another ruling against him in federal court yesterday. Kobach was responsible for a law requiring Kansas residents to prove they are citizens in order to be eligible to vote. In recent years, Kobach flagged and suspended the voting rights of nearly 40,000 voters, including 16 percent of all new voters. A whopping 40 percent of those suspended voters were young, unaffiliated and/or first time voters, the kind of voter that tends to vote more Democratic. The law also created an undue burden on elderly and low-income voters in the state, many of whom don’t have access to their birth records. This law was incredibly damaging to election integrity and the sketchy implementation was capable of swinging elections. Like a spreading cancer, Kobach, Republicans and Trump-Pence specifically, were hoping to implement this type of law from coast to coast. Thankfully, the ACLU took up the cause and good news!

Aside from rebuking Kobach’s citizenship law and the chilling affect it has on voters, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson personally chastised Kris Kobach for “repeated and flagrant violations” of court procedures. He was so sloppy, so unprepared, that Judge Robinson actually ordered Kobach, who is a former professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, to take remedial classes. Here’s a summary of the judge’s searing smackdown from the Topeka Capital-Journal:
Her 118-page ruling sides with the American Civil Liberties Union in a two-year legal battle over the law’s burden and effect on elections. She provided a damning assessment of Kobach’s witnesses, calling their evidence flawed, invalid, biased, irrelevant, unreliable and untrustworthy.
Robinson also takes aim at Kobach for “repeated and flagrant violations” of court procedures during the March trial. His repeated last-minute efforts to introduce new evidence showed a pattern of “flaunting disclosure and discovery rules that are designed to prevent prejudice and surprise at trial,” she said.
As a sanction, Kobach must take six hours of continuing law education in addition to any hours required for his law license.

Judge Robinson was so unhappy with Kris Kobach and his sloppy defense of these massive voter suppression laws that in April 2018, she ordered Kobach to pay the attorneys’ fees in the case. And during a Memorial Day parade this year, this genius, who happens to be running for governor of Kansas, thought the best vehicle he could ride in for patriotic parade was one with a replica machine gun on the Jeep that left children and parents stunned in the day and age of mass shootings. Nothing about the gun indicated it was a replica.

Let’s hope Kansas voters have had enough of this clown show and his endlessly wasting Kansas tax dollars. He’s spent more time in court fighting these racially based voter suppression laws than he has serving the people of Kansas.


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