Johnson County decided to pump the breaks on its public safety sales tax renewal to take another look at the question’s ...

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Donald Trump Jr. in Kansas, on Nov. 29, 2017.

Kris W. Kobach’s prosecutions of voter fraud as secretary of state made him a national Republican figure, but voters rejected him in the last two elections. He defeated Chris Mann, a Democrat.

In the petition for review, Kobach disputed the Court of Appeals’ assessment that “sex” and “gender” have distinct ...