GOP turns on their top voter suppression fanatic after he loses in court


Kris Kobach once spearheaded the GOP's plot to block the vote, with Trump's support. Now, after a devastating court defeat, his own party has started to turn on him.

Few people have done more to shape the Republican Party's recent crusade against voting rights, or have been given more power and influence to regulate the polls, than Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

But now, Kobach's career looks like it's in freefall — exactly at the moment Kobach is trying to unseat fellow Republican Jeff Colyer for governor.



According to the Topeka Capitol-Journal, the ban is likely illegal and unenforceable. But the vote is a stunning disavowal from the party that not only supported Kobach's war on democracy but handed him the firepower to wage it.


Kobach was celebrated by Trump, who has repeatedly claimed he only lost the popular vote due to voter fraud (which has been disproven). He was even appointed to co-chair Mike Pence's commission on "election integrity."

The truth is Kobach's claim of an epidemic of noncitizen voting does not exist. His "reforms" just block legal voters, most of which are low-income and non-white.



As a final humiliation, Kobach was found in contempt of court and ordered to pay the ACLU's legal fees after the organization sued him for his voter suppression tactics.

Judge Julie Robinson, a George W. Bush appointee, had to reprimand Kobach for not following court procedure, and his own witnesses failed to provide one example of an election being swayed by noncitizen voters.
