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Kris Kobach Announces Bid for Kansas Senate Seat Mr. Kobach, who was the Republican nominee for governor last year, has most recently championed an effort to build a border wall with private funding.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal/Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal Kobach’s exact contributions to the Texas lawsuit remain unclear.
In that sense, trans advocates and their supporters should be glad that Kobach has taken on this case in his most blustery mode. When the man has swaddled himself in superhero garb before, he has made ...
In a year strewn with superhero movie flops, this might sound misguided. “Shazam” imploded, “Ant-Man” stayed tiny, and “The Flash” stumbled (even with Michael Keaton’s Batman making a return). Why ...
Kobach in March moved to terminated the contract with Florida-based Morgan & Morgan, which was assisting the state in investing and litigating alleged price gouging in the natural gas markets ...
Kris Kobach, Kansas’ incoming attorney general, is shown leaving the stage with his wife, Heather (left), after addressing supporters at a Republican watch party in Topeka, Kan., on Nov. 9.
When Kris Kobach announced his bid for attorney general in April 2021, many dismissed the effort as another attempt by Kansas' most infamous politician to regain relevance. Over the course of a ...
And so despite humiliating losses in the 2018 gubernatorial general election and the 2020 Republican Senate primary, Kansas’s former secretary of State Kris Kobach is running for state attorney ...
Kobach lost the general race for governor to Laura Kelly in 2018, leaving some Republicans speculating he could cost them the attorney general's office if he landed the nomination.
Kobach’s victory follows a string of failed bids for Kansas governor in 2018 and U.S. Senate in 2020, when he lost to now-Gov. Laura Kelly (D) and now-Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), respectively.
Before Kris Kobach lost the Kansas Republican primary for U.S. Senate in August 2020, his pitch to voters included his work for We Build the Wall, the nonprofit funding the construction of strips ...