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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuess who Trump wants to appoint as head of Homeland Security?
You got it, Kris Kobach, according to MSNBC. What a nightmare .
deminks
(11,014 posts)When will he have the time?
Seriously, he will shoot migrants if given any chance.
And if we are ever to trust the voting system again, he can't be any where near it.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Thus far, most of the damage Mr. Kobach has wrought has been at the state and local levels. As an adviser to immigration hard-liners in Arizona including the felonious-until-pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio he helped write the state law that, among other measures, tasked the local police with verifying the citizenship of anyone they had reasonable suspicion to believe was undocumented. Passed in 2010, the same year Mr. Kobach was elected Kansas secretary of state, Arizonas S.B. 1070 set off a six-year legal battle that rendered the law largely toothless. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/opinion/editorials/kris-kobach-kansas-gop-primary.html
His education in some of the world's best schools apparently did him no good.
A former constitutional law professor with degrees from Yale, Harvard and Oxford, Mr. Kobachs specialty is concocting creative legal arguments to achieve controversial political ends such as, say, forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall. (
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)the name Stephen Miller.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)In It to Win It
(8,252 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)And Kobach will again fail at anything he tries to do , or be held accountable for his crimes. Trump always picks the most corrupt he can find, and to control them to do even worse things.
watoos
(7,142 posts)God help our country.
3Hotdogs
(12,378 posts)He can save the world for Jesus.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)I still expect Senate Repugs to fall in line, but Kobach is pushing it.