Kansas Upheld Abortion Rights And Other Key Updates From The Aug. 2 Elections

The Associated Press has called the Republican primary for Kansas attorney general for Kris Kobach. With 90 percent of the expected vote in, he is defeating state Sen. Kellie Warren 42 percent to 38 percent. Warren had argued that Kobach, who lost bids for governor in 2018 and Senate in 2020, would be unelectable, but he’s probably the favorite this fall given how red Kansas is. And if he is elected attorney general, you can expect him to be a major thorn in the Biden administration’s side, especially on issues of voting and immigration, which have been career-long focuses for Kobach.

Yeah, Jacob, and he said in his 2012 campaign for a judgeship that his judicial philosophy most closely aligned with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. However, during this primary, he has emphasized that he is pro-choice.

Not only is Marlinga on the older side, but he’s also taken some pro-life stances in the past that might come back to haunt him. In the 1990s, when he was a prosecutor, he got a court to bar a 12-year-old incest victim from traveling out to state to get an abortion (to Kansas, which coincidentally kept abortion enshrined in its constitution tonight).