Tim Carpenter
speaker
2,284 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Tim Carpenter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We already know there's a constitutional amendment coming about the election of Supreme Court justices.
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Are they trying to get traction for that issue by throwing a property tax thing on the August ballot?
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Are they trying to get people there to come vote in the primaries?
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so there is an extraordinary power struggle going on between the republican attorney general and democratic governor and really has to do with who gets to decide uh... what happens in federal courts in terms of representing kansas's interest
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Chris Kobach doesn't believe that Governor Kelly should ever stick her neck out for or against litigation in federal court.
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He believes that he has near exclusive control of the state's interactions in the courts.
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The problem is Laura Kelly thinks that Chris Kobach is representing his ideological interest and not actually representing the interest of a bunch of Kansans.
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And so she's tried to wade in here and there, and so basically Kobach wants to shut her down.
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They had oral arguments in the Supreme Court, and there was some concern that
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The case was before them prematurely.
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We'll see what the justices say about that.
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But Stephen McAllister is an attorney, former U.S.
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attorney for Kansas, and he says, the attorney general has a pretty good-sized sandbox.
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The governor has a sandbox too, but it's not big.
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And basically, Kobach's not content with just playing in his sandbox.
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He wants to play in hers as well.
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So he urged the court to issue a decision that directed the attorney general to stop interfering in the governor's decisions, her own independent decisions, to take part in litigation that involved her official duties.
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Kobach, who argued the case on his own behalf before the justices, said that in his view, the Kansas Constitution, state law, court precedent made clear that the state's attorney general was in charge of litigating to defend the state's interests.
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He said, that's what I was elected to do.
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And if Governor Kelly didn't like it, she could go get a law degree and run for attorney general.
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