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, 2025Against

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, 2025Against

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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, 2017For

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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, 2017For

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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, 2015For

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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, 2025Against

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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, 2023Against

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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, 2024For

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Fifty-one Kansas sheriffs announced their endorsement of Kobach's re-election as Kansas Attorney General.

May 11, 2026

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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

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

January 10, 2011

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Took office as the 64th chair of the Kansas Republican Party, a post he held until January 31, 2009.

January 28, 2007

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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

Voted no on the Overland Park City Council motion approving the city's planned informational article about upcoming ballot questions on nonpartisan city elections and the addition of a sixth ward; the motion carried 6 to 1.

February 28, 2001

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

The Kansas Supreme Court issued its opinion in Kelly v. Kobach, dismissing the Governor's quo warranto petition against the Attorney General over control of state litigation and affirming the Governor's authority to litigate on behalf of her office and the agencies she oversees.

March 27, 2026

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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

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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

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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