Kobach is still in office??

I thought that asshat was discredited a long time ago.

A federal judge on Monday permanently struck down Kansas's proof-of-citizenship voter registration law, handing down a blistering ruling against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, one of the country's most vocal advocates of voter-ID laws.

In the 118-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson wrote that the state’s requirement that voters show proof of citizenship during registration violated both the Constitution and the National Voter Registration Act.

Robinson struck down the stringent law, and ordered Kobach to take six additional hours of continuing legal education that “pertain to federal or Kansas civil rules of procedure or evidence.”

  The Hill

Ouch. That's personal.

At issue was Kobach’s pride and joy—a law that required any Kansan to provide a proof of citizenship before they are allowed to vote.

(This law combines two of the larger bats in Kobach’s belfry—that America is being overrun by illegal immigrants and that millions of them are voting.)

The law is nakedly unconstitutional and clearly designed to keep from voting those people whom Kobach finds inconvenient. Luckily for those people, however, Kobach decided to argue his own case and, in doing so, revealed himself to know less about the law than anyone who simply watches reruns of Law and Order.

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His team botched rudimentary rules of evidence and discovery so egregiously that Judge Robinson appeared ready to apply the gavel to their watery heads. Then, on Monday, she brought an even bigger hammer down on them, tossing the law as far as judicial discretion allowed her to throw it.

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“The court will not rely on extrapolated numbers from tiny sample sizes and otherwise flawed data.

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[A]s part of her ruling on the case, in addition to shredding Kobach’s political love child, as well as shredding all the purported “evidence” Kobach brought to court, she also ordered him to…go back to law school.

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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.

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I would have ordered him to go back to law school in a dunce cap while sitting at a grade-school desk. But I’m a law-and-order type of guy.

  Charles P Pierce