You may recall that Kris Kobach lost
his race to be governor of Kansas.
Along the way, as secretary of state he
required Kansas voters to provide proof of citizenship to vote.
He lost that
effort when the ACLU sued.
He refused to obey the court’s order—and was held in
contempt and ordered to pay the ACLU $26,000 in legal fees.
Kobach is well-known in immigration
circles for his unconstitutional policy ideas. In a nationally significant
case, he was counsel to the city of Farmers Branch, Texas. The city enacted an
ordinance to require landlords to rent only to citizens and legal visa-holders.
The right-leaning Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided mostly against the
city. Meanwhile the city paid $850,000 to defend two voting rights lawsuits.
Kobach is known for drafting
harshly anti-immigrant laws that cities and states have enacted or proposed.
He
has proposed a Muslim registry.
He exaggerates voter fraud so much that he was
named by President Trump to co-chair the failed presidential commission that
was supposed to advance the narrative of three million fraudulent votes for
Hillary Clinton.
The commission— which went by the Orwellian
name, Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, came up about
2,999,986 cases shorts (14 cases of voter fraud have been prosecuted from
2016).
A prominent professor nurtured this
politician’s anti-immigrant identity. Harvard Prof. Samuel P. Huntington, Kobach’s
advisor from 1984-1988, believed that Hispanic immigration would be the
downfall of “American identity.” (Not all professors are "leftists.").
I hope I am wrong.
If I am right, I
hope the Senate rejects him.
And I hope, as well, that Trump doesn’t use the
same method of appointment for Homeland Security as he has for Attorney
General.
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