Palast on Damage Report with John Iadarola: Why is Kris Kobach so Dangerous?

Kris Kobach has a long history of racism. He started out as a lawyer for a white supremacist group called FAIR, which says its purpose is to maintain a European majority America. He's the author of SB 1070, which the ACLU calls the Driving While Brown law. He's the guy who came up with a racially biased voter purge program called Interstate Crosscheck, which helped elect Donald Trump in 2016, and Brian Kemp over Stacey Abrams in 2018. He came up with the idea of putting the citizenship question on the census. He's also very proud of the fact he came up with the idea for Trump's wall — and that Mexico would pay for it. Kobach, for all his wacky moves, is a brilliant and dangerous spider in the Right Wing web. He has law degrees from Yale, Harvard, and Oxford, and therefore he’s a master criminal, in the sense that he has violated the law again, and again, and again — particularly a document called The Constitution. But he’s brilliant at coming up with sophisticated and bogus arguments, making stuff sound reasonable and legal, when it’s not even close to it. The reason Trump wants to create the Immigration Czar job for him is that it doesn’t have to be confirmed by the Senate. The Republican senators from Kansas — Kobach's own state — said they wouldn’t vote to confirm him if he were named for a cabinet post like Homeland Security. And this is worse. This puts him in charge of Homeland Security. Learn more: https://gregpalast.com/trump-may-name-kris-kobach-new-immigration-czar/