The ACLU, in its lawsuit against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach for his proof-of-citizenship voter registration requirement, signaled it believed Kobach should be held in contempt of court for what the ACLU alleges is his failure to comply with previous orders in the case.
His proof-of-citizenship requirement has been temporarily blocked by the Kansas federal court, with a full trial on the merits of the case scheduled for March. In the meantime, the ACLU asked Kobach to change the state policy manual for county officials to reflect the current state of play, in which voters who registered without proof of citizenship are allowed to register and to vote. The ACLU also asked Kobach to instruct county officials to send voter registrations certificates, which include one’s polling place, to the voters who registered to vote without proof of citizenship.
Kobach has refused on both matters, according to filings by the ACLU. On the former request, the challengers said, his lawyers indicated that he would not change the policy manual until after a final ruling on proof-of-citizenship has been handed down, and if need be, he had the chance to appeal it to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and even to the Supreme Court.
Kansas has also maintained that sending the registration certificates was not necessary because those voters already received a court-ordered notice, according to the filings.
Now the ACLU is asking the court to order Kobach to show cause for why he shouldn’t be held in contempt, or amend its order to make clear Kobach must do the things the ACLU is requesting.
The ACLU previously requested Kobach be sanctioned for misleading the court on a memo he brought with him to meet with President Trump during the transition. The memo proposed changing the National Voter Registration Act, the law that the ACLU says the proof-of-citizenship requirement violates.
The judge scolded Kobach for his “deceptive conduct and lack of candor” and levied a $1,000 fine.
Kobach is also facing a bevy of lawsuits over the President’s recently-disbanded voter fraud commission, which the secretary vice-chaired.
Read the ACLU filing below:
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Some people, blessed with great opportunity, spend their life helping the poor and the needy. Others search for a cure for cancer or other diseases. Still others choose to work hard for themselves and make a lot of money. Nothing wrong with any of that.
But you have to be a collosal asshole to make depriving minorities, the poor, and your political opponents their Constitutionly guaranteed right to vote. It means you don’t believe in a democracy as a worthy form of government.
So where is Kobach getting the money to defend his actions in these law suits, and the fines? Is this coming out of the KS SoS’s budget? Do the residents of Kansas know how much this may be costing them?
KKKobach is an asshole’s asshole, like his president*. And if you need an example of the purity of ignorance, whiteness, avarice, cruelty, misogyny and just plain ugly that is the modern Repubulican party, Kobach from Kansas is your man.
Who knew that voter suppression could be so complicated? Nobody knew. And the ACLU - I mean, what’s their big problem? You’d think that people’s rights were being violated or something.
I honestly don’t know for certain that Kobach is in fact a dog-humping,serial small animal abuser- but I can say with absolute conviction that a revelation of this nature would not surprise me in the least given his public character.
He has the look.