This brief, which it says was prepared in 3 hours time, argues that it is no big deal to force a party to choose a candidate to run in an election against its will.

Near the end of the brief, Kobach notes that the party ignored Kobach’s demand for a replacement candidate, analogizing the party to the child “who kills his parents then complains of being orphaned,” the dictionary definition of chutzpah.

This is probably one of the most partisan briefs I have seen from a state elections official, and that’s saying a lot.