Democrats are going to fight to keep their former Kansas senate candidate, Chad Taylor, off the ballot (an odd turn of events to put it mildly). This comes after Kris Kobach, Secretary of State, announced that Taylor must stay on ballot. Kobach is intensely political and is likely the most successful and outspoken voter suppression advocate in the country today. Rick Hasen says the law is not dispositive. But life’s hard. Kobach’s the Secretary State. He gets to make the decision, or at least he gets the first pass at it. A Court will likely have the final say over whether he gets his way.

But here’s the thing: I don’t think it matters that much.

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I’m still waiting to hear whether the law is on his side. But hard not to notice that the nation’s top voter suppression advocate, Kris Kobach, is the guy who just got to decide that the dropped out Democrat’s name must stay on the ballot in Kansas.

Armed border militia mistakenly confronts group of bat conservationists on the border.

I should mention I’ve been waiting years for the Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show team to take a crack at the militia movement. But that’s just how I am.

In an opinion written by Judge Richard Posner, a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns bans on same sex marriage in Wisconsin and Indiana. You can read the opinion here.

Not only was former Gov. McDonnell found guilty. But let’s be frank: he set back the “MY WIFE BE CRAZY” defense by probably a generation.

Two fascinating posts about why the Kansas Senate race – which basically wasn’t on anyone’s radar – suddenly became about the most interesting one in the country.

And don’t take my word for it: the national GOP just sent in the cavalry.

Jury reportedly reaches verdict in trial of the McDonnells of Virginia. More soon.

Maine Governor LePage points to Great Wall of China as instructive example of effective border control.

Big decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals this morning to rehear the Halbig case on Obamacare subsidies. Sahil Kapur has the details on why this procedural move has such big implications.

The plight of more than a million uninsured people in five red states hangs in the balance in November. Each state has refused to expand Medicaid through Obamacare under a Republican governor. Each is facing a stiff challenge from a Democratic opponent who supports Medicaid expansion. So much is riding on the outcome of those races that in two of the states Republican legislatures fearful of Democratic victory have passed laws reining in the power of the governor to unilaterally expand Medicaid. Dylan Scott reports.