Evil, But Not Genius
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Vote suppression specialist Kris Kobach got the day in court he deserved:
A politician less hammer-headed than Kansas secretary of State Kris Kobach might have curled up in a ball and whimpered after the day he had in federal court yesterday. District Judge Julie Robinson (a George W. Bush appointee) decisively declared Kobach’s pet voter-ID law unconstitutional, and then ordered him to take some continuing legal education classes because he kept ignoring the basic rules of evidence and discovery during the proceedings in her court.
The provision being tested as a violation of both the federal motor-voter law and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment required applicants for voter registration to supply proof of citizenship. The justification for this new burden on registration was an alleged epidemic of voter fraud. The failure of the now-defunct Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (run by Kobach as vice-chairman under Mike Pence) to come up with significant evidence of voter fraud was not improved upon in this case…
Of course, he still has a reasonable chance of being the next governor of Kansas!
It’s tempting to think of Kobach/Trump as outliers, but John Roberts is different only in that he’s more competent.