Federal Court Rejects Kansas Attempt to Reinstate Kris Kobach’s Voter ID Law – By Jerry Lambe (Law and Crime) / April 29 2020
A federal appellate court rejected Kansas’s attempt to reinstate a law championed by its former secretary of state Kris Kobach, requiring documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) to register to vote. The court found that the law violated the Equal Protections Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
A three-judge panel on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a permanent injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in a 2018 decision, which rebuked then-secretary of state Kobach and ordered him to complete an additional six hours of legal education before he could renew his law license for the upcoming year.
The law that required people to provide proof of citizenship such as a passport or birth certificate in order to register to vote and was widely viewed as part of Kobach’s larger effort to suppress votes in the state.
Following the decision, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which filed the initial lawsuit on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Kansas, implored the state to move on from Kobach’s “sorry legacy.”
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