Kansas Secretary of State and GOP gubernatorial nominee Kris Kobach is desperately trying to publicly prevent the release of parts of a deposition tape — played at a trial over one of his voter restrictions — before Election Day.


Koback is specifically concerned that the video will be used in “last-minute political commercials targeting the Defendant personally,” Kobach said in a court filing Wednesday evening.

In the video, Kobach discussed a meeting with then-President elect Donald Trump in 2016, where he brought a proposal paper with recommendations for legislation that would have incentivized other states to adopt voting restrictions like Kansas’. While the transcript from the deposition was made part of the judicial record, the video itself reveals Kobach’s body language during the testimony, during which he was exasperated, frustrated and annoyed with the questioning.

Kobach’s team at the time was unsuccessful in preventing it from being played in the courtroom where the public and media, including TPM, would view it.

Robinson concluded her ruling by ordering Kobach to take six additional hours of continuing legal education in addition to any other hours required for a law license.

“The additional CLE must pertain to federal or Kansas civil rules of procedure or evidence,” Robinson wrote.