Kansas on the hook for $2 million thanks to Schmidt, Schwab and Kobach

Kris Kobach's failed effort to making voting more difficult is costing Kansans. That Schmidt and Schwab continued his case in court, makes it all the worse.

By

Editorials

December 22, 2021 - 9:18 AM

Attorney General Derek Schmidt Photo by Vickie Moss / Iola Register

Good news: Kansas is projected to have a budget surplus of $2.9 billion.

Bad news: Kansas is on the hook to pay nearly $2 million in attorney fees to the American Civil Liberties Union and another firm. This stems from a federal lawsuit over a failed voting law championed by former Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Read that again, nearly $2 million of the state’s $2.9 budget surplus is going to a lawsuit settlement.

The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Jason Tidd reports the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State formally recommended…

Related
March 25, 2022
January 23, 2019
November 26, 2018
November 19, 2018