Kris Kobach, a Harvard, University of Oxford, and Yale Law School grad, exuded certainty that America was under attack from brown immigrants and black voters. There was, as a result, a zealotry to all of Kobach’s work. He “has been a key architect behind many of the nation’s anti-voter and anti-immigration policies,” observed Tomas Lopez and Jennifer L. Clark in a Brennan Center for Justice post. Back in 2001 when Kobach was at the DOJ, he developed a database screening program to identify Muslims as terrorist threats. Though thousands were deported, no terrorists were ever found. But Kobach
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