A federal magistrate judge has denied a request by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) to reconsider sanctions against him. U.S. Judge James P. O’Hara fined Kobach $1,000 in June for making “patently misleading representations” to the court regarding the contents of documents he was photographed holding when he met with Donald Trump last year. In a Wednesday ruling, O’Hara denied Kobach’s request for a motion for reconsideration because he was introducing new arguments he hadn’t used before. “Significantly, defendant never represented, as he does now, that his misstatements were the result of editing errors. Kobach is the vice chair of a commission that Trump convened to investigate elections.

Source: Huffington Post July 05, 2017 21:08 UTC