FEDERAL JUDGE SENDS KANSAS SECRETARY OF STATE BACK TO LAW SCHOOL

…The Renegade Kansas Republican Politician, Kris Kobach

The US Court Judges are the saviors for American citizens against Trump

Well, what have we learned about having Donald Trump as our Commander-in-Chief?

Unfortunately, we have learned that the US Congress, that is supposed to be a check on the Executive Branch, they are a bunch of wimps and will not challenge the president.  It doesn’t matter what the issues are, in either immigration, separating immigrant children from their parents or dealing with an EPA cabinet secretary that continually breaks all the rules.  Trump is never challenged.

Since the Republicans run both congressional houses, the Democrats are powerless, at least until the November mid-terms.

But we must remember that there are three, not two houses in our democratic government.  So far, even the conservative US Supreme Court and the other judges across the country, they are the ones that have come to America's  rescue.

It was the courts that stopped Trump’s Muslim ban.  It was the courts in the different states that have been telling the parties to stop the gerrymandering that allowed one party to always stay in power.  It was a judge that told Donald Trump that his Trump University was a total farce and Trump ended up settling the case with former students for 25 million dollars.

                                                                                                                            

The courts of the country have become our last resort for sanity, and hopefully Robert Mueller’s special investigation will also send the president to court for having to pay for his obstruction of justice, collusion, money laundering, campaign donation fraud, or God knows whatever else of which he is most likely guilty.

Well, now the courts have once again put down a raging idiot that also happens to be the current Republican, Secretary of State of the state of Kansas, Mr. Kris Kobach. 

Kobach was one of the primary individuals that worked with ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council which is a nonprofit conservative organization.  ALEC was the group that produced a number of model bills for states on a broad range of issues, such as the "Stand-your-ground" gun laws. This was the law that allowed the killer of Treyvon Martin to walk away free.  It is referred to as the “License to Kill Law” and is totally supported by the NRA.

For years, Kobach has been warning anyone that would listen, that voter fraud is so rampant that restrictive laws are needed to prevent non-citizens from voting.

A legal challenge to the Kansas law he championed requiring voters to show proof of citizenship was his opportunity to back up his claims. Not only did he fail to produce any credible evidence whatsoever, he also ended up being sanctioned by a federal judge. This decision is a rebuke to Mr. Kobach and others who, like him, traffic in xenophobia and lies about voter fraud.

A ruling issued Monday by US District Judge, Julie A. Robinson, struck down the Kansas law that went into effect in 2013 that required voters to produce proof of citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, just for registering to vote. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had filed suit on behalf of the League of Women Voters and individual Kansans. Instead of combating voter fraud, the judge found the law had disenfranchised tens of thousands of eligible voters, violating the 1993 National Voter Registration Act and the 14th Amendment.

The Kansas law was uniquely strict in requiring documented proof of citizenship.  However,  the ruling should serve as a warning to other states that try to erect barriers to voting.  The ruling’s discrediting of Mr. Kobach is significant because of the national name he has made for himself as chief supporter of voter-fraud claims and anti-immigration noise. Kobach, a stanch ally of President Trump, who also served as vice chairman of the very short-lived Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.  Mr. Kobach now hopes to be the governor of Kansas, and he is running for the GOP nomination in an August primary.  God help Kansas if he wins.

Voters would do well to pay attention to the part of the 118-page ruling that deals with Mr. Kobach’s improper conduct as both the defendant and the lawyer. So wanting was his representation that he violated all the rules “designed to prevent prejudice”.  Because of his conduct, the judge ordered Kobach to complete six hours of basic law school education.

Mr. Kobach says he plans to appeal the judge’s ruling.

I would suggest that “Lawyer Kobach”  would do much better by attending the class on the law.

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