Kris Kobach

Testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights at a hearing on environmental litigation, describing the climate-related cases he litigated as Kansas Attorney General and arguing that such litigation raised energy costs.

June 24, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: judiciary.senate.gov · researched July 24, 2026

Joined the attorneys general of Louisiana, Ohio and West Virginia in a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Census Bureau residence rule that counts noncitizens residing unlawfully in the United States toward congressional apportionment.

February 2, 2025Opposes Immigration

Source: kcur.org · researched July 24, 2026

Won a federal court order barring the U.S. firearms bureau from making Kansans register gun silencers and short-barreled rifles. Kansas joined 14 other states and private plaintiffs in the case.

August 4, 2026Opposes Gun Control

Source: ag.ks.gov · researched September 5, 2026

Requested statewide voter roll data from all 50 states as vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity; as of this date 44 states and the District of Columbia had declined to release some or all of the requested voter records.

July 3, 2017Supports Election Integrity

Source: cnn.com · researched July 24, 2026

Filed the first criminal election-fraud charges brought by the Kansas Secretary of State's office after the Legislature granted that office prosecutorial authority in 2015, charging three people in Sherman and Johnson counties with double voting and related election offenses.

October 9, 2015Supports Election Integrity

Source: talkingpointsmemo.com · researched July 24, 2026

Sued Governor Laura Kelly and the secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families to compel release of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program applicant and recipient records to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

September 9, 2025Opposes Data Privacy

Source: kwch.com · researched July 24, 2026

Sued Governor Laura Kelly and her administration to stop Kansas agencies from changing the sex listed on birth certificates and state-issued driver's licenses.

July 7, 2023Opposes Civil Rights

Source: lawrencekstimes.com · researched July 24, 2026

Announced a $17.1 billion national settlement with Meta won by 47 states. Kansas gets more than $134 million, and Meta has to add child-safety limits on Instagram and Facebook, including daily time caps and age checks.

August 26, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: ag.ks.gov · researched September 5, 2026

Won a court ruling that Nexstar Media Group broke a court order by putting its executives on Tegna's board, and the judge ordered them removed. His office is suing to block the companies' $6.2 billion merger, arguing it raises TV bills and shrinks local news.

August 10, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: ag.ks.gov · researched September 5, 2026

Filed a Kansas Consumer Protection Act lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. in the District Court of Thomas County over the company's marketing of its COVID-19 vaccine.

June 17, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: foxbusiness.com · researched July 24, 2026

Took the oath of office as the 45th Attorney General of Kansas, administered by Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert at the Statehouse in Topeka.

January 9, 2023

Source: ksat.com · researched July 24, 2026

Took office as the 31st Secretary of State of Kansas, serving in that office until January 14, 2019.

January 10, 2011

Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 24, 2026

Left the Overland Park City Council to accept a White House Fellowship; the council adopted Resolution No. 3238 recognizing his service since his April 6, 1999 election and his work on the Public Safety and Public Works Committees.

August 20, 2001

Source: opkansas.civicweb.net · researched July 24, 2026

Voted against Overland Park Ordinance No. SWU-2315, which established a storm water utility user fee on residential and non-residential property in the city, after stating objections to the structure of the proposed fee; the council adopted the ordinance 7 to 1.

August 20, 2001

Source: opkansas.civicweb.net · researched July 24, 2026

Cast the sole dissenting vote as an Overland Park City Council member on Ordinance No. BO-2325, the city's attestation of an increase in tax revenues for budget year 2002, which the council adopted 7 to 1 on a roll call.

August 20, 2001

Source: opkansas.civicweb.net · researched July 24, 2026

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson struck down the Kansas documentary proof-of-citizenship voter registration law that Kobach defended at trial and ordered him to complete six additional hours of continuing legal education for repeated violations of federal discovery rules.

June 18, 2018

Source: abajournal.com · researched July 24, 2026

Was held in civil contempt of court by U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in Fish v. Kobach for failing to comply with her orders requiring notice to affected registered voters.

April 18, 2018

Source: npr.org · researched July 24, 2026

A federal magistrate judge declined to reconsider the $1,000 sanction imposed on Kobach for making misleading representations to the court about documents at issue in the Fish v. Kobach voter-registration case.

July 6, 2017

Source: kcur.org · researched July 24, 2026

The Kansas Supreme Court dismissed Governor Kelly's lawsuit against Kobach over who controls state litigation, while ruling the Governor may still go to court for her own office and the agencies she oversees (Kelly v. Kobach).

March 27, 2026

Source: wibw.com · researched July 24, 2026

Became vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on the day the commission was established by executive order, serving alongside Vice President Mike Pence as chair.

May 11, 2017

Source: trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov · researched July 24, 2026