Lawyer 4 White Nationalist Group Brags That He 'Helped' Russell Pearce Write Arizona Immigration Law

[Ian David]

Lawyer For White Nationalist Group Brags That He 'Helped' Sen. Russell Pearce Write Arizona Immigration Law

By Susie Madrak Tuesday Apr 27, 2010 9:00am

Rachel Maddow pointed out last night that a right winger and teabagger who's running for secretary of state in Kansas is claiming responsibility for "helping" Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce write the state's controversial new immigration law. (He has since removed the claim from his website.) Wingnut lawyer Kris Kobach, a constitutional law professor, is counsel for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and he says the reason he's running for secretary of state is to keep "criminal enterprise" ACORN from stealing elections. (He refers to Al Franken's "pseudo-election".)

Even though in 2007, as chair of the Kansas GOP, he openly bragged about the party "caging" voters - an illegal practice. Hey, it's okay if you're a Republican!

From Stephen Lemons at the Phoenix New Times:

As disturbing as the prospect is of a nativist extremist lawyer like Kris Kobach training all 881 of Sheriff Joe's beigeshirts in immigration law, I have to wonder if it's a sign that Arpaio's throwing in the towel on the big Melendres vs. Arpaio racial-profiling lawsuit now underway in federal court.

What, was Stormfront's Don Black not available? Maybe Tom Metzger could take a break from running his white nationalist Web site The Insurgent to come down and offer some words of supremacist wisdom to Joe's benighted deputy dawgs. And don't forget David Duke, that cat's always lookin' for a gig.

I kid, of course. Being an attorney, Kobach's ties to anti-immigrant and extremist nativist organizations are far more white collar, with the emphasis on white. The controversial University of Missouri law prof acts as counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal arm of FAIR, the notorious Federation for American Immigration Reform.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has tagged FAIR as a hate organization, and FAIR's earned the title. Last April, when Kobach was announced as a minority witness before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during the committee's hearing into the 287(g) program and Joe Arpaio, the SPLC hit the committee with a letter objecting to Kobach's presence because of his ties to FAIR.


More:
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/white-supremacists-brag-they-helped-s

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/EileenLeft/status/12972583488

See also:

Profiling Arizona legislator Russell Pearce: Author of immigration law is pals with noted neo-Nazi
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8226571

[xultar]

1. So this type of socialist stuff is o.k.....

[3waygeek]

2. Well, it is *National* socalism n/t

[Ian David]

3. See also: Meet The Birther Who Co-Wrote The Arizona Immigration Law

Meet The Birther Who Co-Wrote The Arizona Immigration Law
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8230342&mesg_id=8230342