Judge tells Kansas official to produce plan taken to Trump

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


John Hanna, Ap Political Writer Updated 4:20 pm, Wednesday, April 5, 2017



FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, right, holds a stack of papers as he meets with then President-elect Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. A federal judge has ordered Kobach, Kansas' top elections official, to produce by Thursday, April 6, 2017, a plan on homeland security issues that he brought to the meeting with Trump.

Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP / Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Kansas' top elections official to produce a plan on homeland security issues that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump as potential evidence in a voting rights lawsuit.

U.S. Magistrate James O'Hara ruled that the document from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach could be relevant to a federal lawsuit challenging a 2013 state law requiring new voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship when registering. O'Hara also ordered Kobach to produce a second internal office document.

O'Hara directed Kobach to provide the two documents by 5 p.m. Thursday so that the magistrate can examine them in private. O'Hara said he would then decide whether the documents are relevant and, if they are, what information attorneys challenging the state's proof-of-citizenship requirement would see.

Kobach met with Trump in November in New Jersey, and an Associated Press photo of them together showed Kobach holding a stack of papers. The top page outlined a "strategic plan" for homeland security for Trump's first year in office that could include changes in federal voting laws. The second document Kobach must produce is an internal office draft of proposed changes in federal voting laws.




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[rgbecker]

1. Kobach is the guy convinced of voter fraud.

He decided to charge several voters, who he finally discovered. They turned out to be confused old white guys voting twice for Trump.

I'm glad he is being taken to court. He fueled the Trump claim of 3 million illegal voters. That talk has finally been quieted down by some good reporting from the MSM.