Appellate courts should act swiftly to show Mr. Kobach just how wrong he is. The basic rights of voters are being abridged by the champion of a shameful campaign that is being whipped up in Republican-controlled statehouses: using ID requirements to suppress voters who tend toward the Democrats. Mr. Kobach is pushing the myth that voter cheating is rampant. But he has utterly failed to document that, despite his Javert-like zealotry as secretary of state. In fact, the federal ruling against him said there was evidence of only three instances across 18 years in which noncitizens voted in Kansas.
While the courts are at it, I wonder if there will be sanctions for Kobach trying to reinstitute the two-tiered (or three tired) voting system a court already said he couldn’t use.