{"id":36798,"date":"2018-03-14T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=36798"},"modified":"2018-03-14T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:13:44","slug":"lets-go-to-the-lovely-land-of-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=36798","title":{"rendered":"Let’s go to the lovely land of voter suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Kevin Underhill in his Lowering the Bar.<\/p>\n

I’ve been loosely (that means via Twitter*) following what’s been going on in the ACLU v. Kansas and Kris Kobach (Kansas’s and Trump’s czar of “voter fraud”) trial.<\/p>\n

Here’s Kevin’s compact summary. The best.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a lawyer, you\u2019d hope never to see this headline: \u201cFederal judge to [your last name]: \u2018That\u2019s not how trials are conducted<\/a>.’\u201d But if you are Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, you have seen many such headlines recently, if you are still reading news. Because you\u00a0decided to personally represent the state<\/a> when it got sued by the ACLU over your BS \u201cvoter fraud\u201d law, and you are handling the trial, even though you plainly have no clue at all how to do that<\/a>. Bonus points: the judge has also used the phrase \u201cEvidence 101\u201d when speaking to you.<\/em><\/p>\n

UPDATE, re Twitter, where I just found this courtroom tidbit posted by the ACLU (you’ll laugh, if bitterly):<\/p>\n

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ACLU Retweeted Celia Llopis-Jepsen<\/em><\/p>\n

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This from Kobach\u2019s expert witness in #<\/s>ACLUvKobach<\/b><\/a> on voter fraud:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Celia Llopis-Jepsen<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>@Celia_LJ<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ACLU asks Richman whether he would code the name “Carlos Murguia” as foreign? Richman: Probably I would code it as foreign. ACLU: Carlos Murguia is a federal judge who sits in this courthouse. Richman says he didn’t know that. #<\/s>ACLUvKobach<\/b><\/span> #<\/s>ACLUvKansas<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Via Kevin Underhill in his Lowering the Bar. I’ve been loosely (that means via Twitter*) following what’s been going on in the ACLU v. Kansas and Kris Kobach (Kansas’s and Trump’s czar of “voter fraud”) trial. Here’s Kevin’s compact summary. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1175,1265],"tags":[128,2871,2870,1579,2579,699,2869,1134],"class_list":["post-36798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","category-voting-rights","tag-aclu","tag-aclu-v-kansas","tag-kansas-secretary-of-state","tag-kevin-underhill","tag-kris-kobach","tag-lowering-the-bar","tag-voter-fraud","tag-voter-suppression"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t