Kris Kobach ordered to attend legal classes for violating basic legal concepts

When striking down his voter registration system, the judge disciplined him for his unfamiliarity with the law

KIRA LERNER

JUN 19, 2018, 8:15 AM

A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Kansas Secretary of State and notorious voter suppression architect Kris Kobach’s documentary proof of citizenship law, and ordered Kobach, who decided to represent himself in the litigation and repeatedly violated basic rules of civil procedure, to attend six hours of continuing legal education classes.

During trial in March, Kobach argued that he had evidence that a significant number of non-citizens were registering to vote in Kansas. The only way to prevent this type of voter fraud, he argued, was his law which required voters to show a proof-of-citizenship document like a passport or birth certificate when they registered to vote.

The ACLU, which represented the voters in the lawsuit, argued that the law disenfranchised eligible voters, especially students and low-income citizens. According to the ACLU, the Kansas law blocked more than 35,000 people in that state from casting a ballot between 2013 and 2016 — about 14 percent of all new voter registrations.

The judge agreed with the ACLU.

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Kobach, a Yale Law School educated attorney and a former legal professor, will have to sit for an additional six hours of continuing legal education classes on federal or Kansas civil rules of procedure or evidence. And American voters are spared from Kobach’s effort to enact more stringent requirements on citizens seeking to register to vote across the country.

https://thinkprogress.org/judge-orders-kris-kobach-lawyer-behind-voter-fraud-myth-to-attend-legal-classes-e8b8767edede-6133b58a102a/


And you can't cheat Kobach...............................

And if I was running against you in Kansas for governor , one of the first questions I would ask ..........so how was class and did you pass the test................you didn't have crib sheet for cheating did you................