“Kansas Supreme Court rules against Kris Kobach and Scott Schwab in election law case”

From the Topeka Capital-Journal:

The Kansas Supreme Court has sided with voter advocacy groups in a lawsuit against Secretary of State Scott Schwab and Attorney General Kris Kobach challenging the legality of an election law enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature over the veto of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.

Justice Caleb Stegall, the high court’s most conservative member, wrote the unanimous opinion released Friday.

“Today we hold that when the Legislature criminalizes speech and does not — within the elements of the crime — provide a high degree of specificity and clarity demonstrating that the only speech being criminalized is constitutionally unprotected speech, the law is sufficiently unclear to confer pre-enforcement standing on a plaintiff challenging the law,” Stegall wrote.

The decision in League of Women Voters of Kansas v. Schwab is here.

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