Trump University. Isn’t it obvious?
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and deplorables, all of them. Brownback too.
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One of the first things I learned as a new lawyer (I clerked for a state court judge) was that you never, ever blame your staff for something submitted to the court. It’s your responsibility. That in itself is contemptible.
But this is typical for Republicans. It’s always someone else’s responsibility and/or fault.
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I WISH.
But he’ll get off with a fine paid by someone else, maybe TRussia’s re-election campaign?
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and since I got mine, FU is another malady afflicting Republicans.
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Reminds me of the story of Prof. “Bull” Warren of Harvard Law School. A judge said to him, “I fine you $50 for contempt.” To which Warren responded, “Fifty dollars doesn’t begin to express my contempt for this court.”
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Kobach, got the kebash? sheesh! good !
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I fully expect him to initiate impeachment proceedings on the judge, the law notwithstanding.
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“I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record …”
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Paraphrasing David Corn of MoJo, today would be a good day to contribute to the ACLU
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That’s Navy carrier pilot goddess to you.
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Winner winner.
Hey Madame Judge, welcome to the line.
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Robinson imposed sanctions on Kobach on Wednesday, saying he had to pay the ACLU for attorneys fees and that “any further remedial measures” would be decided when she ruled on the merits of the case.
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I am surely not the first person here (nor shall I be the last) to say HAW!
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The details of what went on the cabin are gruesome, and she must’ve heard it, but it was just another day at work. One passenger they think was from ABQ died.
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Not that this justifies anything, but: both are motivated not by love and respect for the law but by ideology (for non-Kansans’ benefit: Kline was/is so vehement an opponent of abortion that he was caught tampering with evidence in a trial against an abortion provider; Kobach, though Secretary of State, actually asked that the legislature pass a law (and they obliged) that would give him prosecutorial powers over cases involving “election fraud”–the only SoS in the country with that power. They are reflections of the Tea Party fever that took possession of the GOP here but which now, thankfully, seems to be on the wane.
Kobach, though, is running for governor . . .
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Robinson’s Wednesday order was scathing, and was particularly directed to Kobach, who made the unusual choice to represent his own office at the trial.
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So, Ku Klux Kobach is finally getting his comeuppance.
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HAW!
He represents his own office in court and gets slapped with contempt.
Precious! HAW!
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[Full disclosure: You see that glass over there? I’m almost always going to see it as half full.]
So far, Kobach is hanging on pretty tightly to Brownback’s coattails, which, given Brownback’s legislative allies’ losses in the last election, doesn’t strike me as a winning proposition even in the primary. In a recent GOP candidate forum, Kobach criticized Colyer’s going along with the school-funding bill–a bill which had serious resistance only in the Senate. So, I’m hopeful that Kobach is as bad a politician as he is a lawyer and is, so far, very badly reading the mood of his own party.
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