By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Kris Kobach is running for Attorney General in Kansas and he's asking those who may not have voted for him in the Governor's Race in 2018 or for the U.S. Senate in 2020 to look at his legal qualifications as they prepare to enter the voting booth in 2022.
"I graduated from Yale Law School after going to Harvard," Kobach said. "I was a law professor for 15 years teaching constitutional law, legislation and immigration law and I've litigated more cases than I can count against the ACLU."
Kobach believes he can be the strong advocate the state is going to need against what he sees as the overreach of the Biden administration with regard to regulations.
"Congress writes a law and the law authorizes the executive branch to write regulations to fill in some of the gaps," Kobach said. "All of those regulations have to be within the four corners of the law. They can't write regulations on something else or write regulations that are in conflict with the law, but that's precisely what the Biden administration has started doing, both in the area of guns and in the area of the environment and restricting oil and natural gas production."
Kobach is also particularly concerned about the impact of H.R. 1 on election laws, though he is proud of the work he did as Secretary of State in that regard.
"Kansas has one of the most secure election systems," Kobach said. "I would say the most secure in the entire country. If H.R. 1 passes, it will wipe out our proof of citizenship, it will wipe out our photo ID law. It will wipe out our decision to decide when and how we register people. That violates Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, which says that the states control the determination of when a person is qualified to vote and also Article I, Section 4, which says that the states determine the time, place and manner of election."
There are other Republicans considering a run for the office being vacated by Derek Schmidt as Schmidt runs for governor, but none with the name recognition Kobach has due to his previous races.
Below is the full interview with Kobach.