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Kansas officials told to keep enforcing voter ID law that was ruled unconstitutional
The Hill ^ | June 20, 2018 | Brett Samuels

Posted on 06/20/2018 12:54:42 PM PDT by jazusamo

Kansas officials are continuing to enforce a proof of citizenship law that a federal judge recently deemed unconstitutional.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Wednesday that staff for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has directed county clerks to continue requiring voters to present documentary proof of citizenship.

One county clerk said she was instructed to continue enforcing the policy "as we have been."

Danedri Herbert, a spokeswoman for Kobach, told the news outlet that state officials still need time to fully understand the court’s ruling on the law. She argued that the judge did not provide a clear timeline for when Kobach had to instruct county clerks to implement the policy.

“I think ‘immediately’ is kind of open to interpretation,” she told the Capital-Journal.

In Monday's 118-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson wrote that the state’s requirement that voters show proof of citizenship during registration violated both the Constitution and the National Voter Registration Act.

Robinson struck down the stringent law, and ordered Kobach to take six additional hours of continuing legal education that “pertain to federal or Kansas civil rules of procedure or evidence.”

In an earlier court order, Robinson had held Kobach in contempt for skirting court orders related to the law and failing to send postcards confirming registration for thousands of voters.

Kobach, who personally defended the law in court, is running for Kansas governor. He was a former vice-chairman of President Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: 26thamendment; citizenship; judgerobinson; kansas; kobach; kriskobich; nationalvoterid; twentysixthamendment; voterid; voterregistration
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To: jazusamo

Good start.Tell the judge to pound sand.Let em enforce that rule.


21 posted on 06/20/2018 1:54:15 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Paladin2

Thats what I’m talking about.


22 posted on 06/20/2018 1:55:44 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

A locality can choose to count noncitizens as residents. However in Federal elections only US citizens may cast votes.


23 posted on 06/20/2018 1:57:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: jazusamo

So American Airlines will join United and will no longer be involved in CHILD TRAFFICKING.

Hopefully more companies help to put an end to this SCOURGE.


24 posted on 06/20/2018 2:10:13 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: jazusamo; All
Patriots, regarding politically correct voting rights that uniparty Democrats and RINOs desperately need to compensate for their shrinking voter pool as a consequence of condoning the murder unborn children in exchange for votes, we need to support Pres. Trump in leading the states to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment. (The 16th Amendment can disappear too.)

"In Monday's 118-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson wrote that the state’s requirement that voters show proof of citizenship during registration violated both the Constitution [??? emphasis added]..."

The states have never amended the Constitution to prohibit themselves from requiring that candidate voters show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. SHOW ME where I’m wrong.

We need federal and state laws to immediately remove from the bench judges and justices who use the politically correct terms “constitutional” and “unconstitutional” if they fail to reference specific, reasonably supportive constitutional clauses in the same breath.

25 posted on 06/20/2018 2:19:14 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

Bump!


26 posted on 06/20/2018 2:25:22 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

The state has a number of days to file a motion to reconsider, then lots of days to file an appeal with the US Circuit Court, and then far more time to appeal to the USSC.


27 posted on 06/20/2018 2:30:01 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: jazusamo
OUTSTANDING !

.. and how many divisions does Judge Julie Robinson have ..

28 posted on 06/20/2018 3:34:46 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: jazusamo

I want that stinking judge to name ONE country in the world where its people vote, that does NOT require voter ID.

The only reason to eliminate picture ID in 2018 is to allow voter fraud. That is the ONLY reason. Anyone who claims otherwise is a stinking liar.

Mark


29 posted on 06/20/2018 5:29:15 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: jazusamo

Good. For far too long, too many people and institutions have acted as, and have more less declared, that both the Legislature and the Executive are inferior branches to the Judiciary.


30 posted on 06/20/2018 5:47:43 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: BobL

wrong thread?


31 posted on 06/20/2018 5:49:45 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jazusamo

I hope Kobach slow walks this all the way to November.

I’m sick and tired of the feral judges making it up as they go because they don’t like some policy.


32 posted on 06/20/2018 5:54:06 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: jiggyboy

Whoops, thanks.


33 posted on 06/20/2018 6:06:26 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: jazusamo

Excellent news. :D


34 posted on 06/20/2018 6:26:22 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: M Kehoe

They have federal Marshalls.


35 posted on 06/26/2018 2:39:33 PM PDT by Mercat (I drink. I know things and IÂ’m basically not a very nice person.)
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To: Theodore R.

“Can’t this judge have Mr. Kobach arrested and put under ankle chain the way the son of Jim Bunning did for the KY clerk, Kim Davis?”

Yup


36 posted on 06/26/2018 3:59:43 PM PDT by Mercat (I drink. I know things and IÂ’m basically not a very nice person.)
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