Kobach's Last Ploy To Thwart Dems In Kansas Senate Race Dealt Big Setback

[kpete]

Ha-cha!

Kobach's Last Ploy To Thwart Dems In Kansas Senate Race Dealt Big Setback

In what is likely a big win for Kansas Democrats, the Kansas Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear the lawsuit being brought by a Democratic voter suing to force the state Democratic Party to name a new candidate in the Senate race. Instead, the state's high court referred the case to a lower court for a fuller hearing.

David Orel, a registered Democratic voter in Kansas City, Kan., who is refusing to speak to the press, filed the lawsuit after the state Supreme Court ruled that former Democratic nominee Chad Taylor should be taken off the ballot. In it, he argues that the Democratic Party is required by state law to replace Taylor.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has asserted the same position. But election law expert and University of California-Irvine law professor Rick Hasen said that the state supreme court's new order would likely help Democrats in their effort to leave the Democratic spot open and drive voters to independent candidate Greg Orman in his bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS).


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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kansas-supreme-court-orel-case-lowercourt

[Fred Sanders]

1. The Kansas Supreme Court must be temptingly close to citing Kobach for contempt....please, go

to the court just one more time with yet another ludicrous argument based on lies, transparent political hackery, utter disrespect for the rule of law and the courts, and very bad lawyering.

[riqster]

2. Kick.

[TlalocW]

3. Yeah, I bet he's a democratic voter

Either he's been a long time republican plant because you never know when having one of your own disguised as one of theirs will come in handy, or he's an associate of Kobach's, who switched his party declaration before the lawsuit was filed.

TlalocW