Here's Jeffrey Toobin Calling Kris Kobach a Racist to His Face on Live TV
On Wednesday night, Kris Kobach, Republican nominee for Kansas governor and current Kansas Secretary of State, was called out on live TV by CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin for his career-spanning efforts to suppress voting.
The two were appearing on Anderson Cooper’s show. Cooper asked Kobach about the constitutionality of Donald Trump’s suggested policy to end birthright citizenship, something that’s almost certainly legally impossible. Kobach, who is strongly supported by Trump, defended the idea.
Cooper then pointed out that Kobach’s own voter suppression law in Kansas was found unconstitutional by a federal court. “Your critics say you aren’t an expert on the constitution either. In fact, you were ordered to go to six hours of extra classes on the law by the judge,” Cooper noted.
Kobach said that federal judges will “often” disagree on verdicts in controversial cases , suggesting that his verdict, which is currently on appeal, could be overturned.