Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach didn’t open his own wallet to pay for six hours of legal education a federal judge ordered he take due to his “repeated and flagrant violations of discovery and disclosure rules.”
Instead, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported Tuesday, Kobach used state funds. A spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office confirmed that it paid $359 for an audio version of the legal education course, according to the report.
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson ordered that Kobach take the legal education courses after striking down a law Kobach personally defended in court, on his then-office’s behalf, that required proof of citizenship for people registering to vote.
Robinson wrote at the time that “tens of thousands of eligible citizens were blocked from registration before this Court’s preliminary injunction, and that the process of completing the registration process was burdensome for them.”
The judge said of Kobach’s procedural mistakes: “It is not clear to the Court whether Defendant repeatedly failed to meet his disclosure obligations intentionally or due to his unfamiliarity with the federal rules. Therefore, the Court finds that an additional sanction is appropriate in the form of Continuing Legal Education.”
Typical latter day Rethuglican leech who believes that the public trough is free cash that is theirs for the taking.
Anyone here who believes he listened to it needs to go outside right now and throw a dollar on the sidewalk.
Amoral, immoral, unethical, illegal. That’s Kobach!
Well, if you knee-jerk liberals want to complain about this I guess you can just explain to me how the state of Kansas can ever hope to pull itself out of the gutter if it doesn’t start investing in education and professional development from the bottom to the top.
Fair point Matt
