A federal magistrate says he wants to inspect documents that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach shared with then President-elect Trump during the transition.
The order came in a case challenging the Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. The ACLU claims the requirement violates the federal motor voter act, which only requires voters to swear they are citizens. Kobach argues that has allowed non-citizens to register.
U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. O’Hara now wants to see what might be drafts of an amendment to the motor voter law that Kobach shared with then President-elect Trump in November.
The ACLU requested the documents, which it says support its claim that Kobach can’t show a substantial number of non-citizens have registered to vote and thus is trying to change the legal standard.