Tag: Kris Kobach

I went to a meeting of the League of Women Voters earlier this week.  I came away thinking that if things go the way I expect they’re going, they might need to change their name…

TOPEKA — Two Kansas legislators prefiled a bill that would deliver millions in voter-approved school bonds that were blocked earlier this year because of a strict ruling from the Kansas attorney general. Voters in the…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Attorney General’s Office blocked millions in school bond funds to a district in the state’s smallest county based on a rigid interpretation of a 2023 elections law. Voters in the Greeley…

Kris Kobach is pretty happy with himself these days. He just got 147,000 people declared ineligible for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.  The victory is all the sweeter for Kobach because they’re all…

Three Republican attorneys general argued in a federal courtroom in North Dakota on Tuesday that a federal rule allowing some undocumented immigrants to receive subsidized health insurance should be stopped — or at the very…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach’s office fined a rural, seven-member school board for repeatedly violating the Kansas Open Meetings Act. The Chautauqua County school district board, a 380-student district in southeast Kansas,…

While not an outright victory, Friday was a pretty good day for voting rights advocates in Kansas. After three years of legal wrangling, their efforts were largely affirmed by the Kansas Supreme Court. The high…

In Kansas, you can parent your children any way you like.  Just so long as you do that parenting like a conservative Republican.  That’s the message coming from Topeka these days, anyway. Just a few…

TOPEKA — Kansas chief deputy attorney general Daniel Burrows defended a hard-fought attempt to overhaul the state’s civil asset forfeiture law and urged rival factions to avoid the temptation to march to their castles, close…

If the law doesn’t give you what you want, try intimidation.  That’s the reprehensible tactic that our state’s biggest schoolyard bully, Attorney General Kris Kobach, is using in a dangerous attack on transgender children for…