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Thad wrote:Not phrasing it as "There's nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't be governor" is possibly the biggest missed opportunity I've ever seen.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson has repeatedly warned [Kansas Secretary of State Kris] Kobach’s team about trying to introduce evidence that has not been shared with the plaintiffs during the first three days of the high stakes trial, which will determine whether thousands can vote in Kansas this November.

Kobach complained that the parties in the case “are relying on numbers that are stale” after the judge blocked a line of questioning to Bryan Caskey, the state director of elections, on data that had not been provided to the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the plaintiffs in the case before the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.

This triggered a rebuke from Robinson after three days of polite warnings on the rules of legal procedure in the face of multiple hiccups from Kobach’s team.

“We're not going to have a trial by ambush here... You're stuck with what you provided to them by the deadline,” Robinson said.

"No, no. That's not how trials are conducted," she told Kobach during the exchange.

Sue Becker, an attorney on Kobach’s team, tried to interject. “Let me finish,” the judge said as she continued on with her admonishment.

Kobach’s office had two years to update the data on suspended voters being used in the case and waited until the week of the trial to try and work in new numbers into the case, Robinson said.

Mongrel wrote:Former Barney the Dinosaur actor now works as a controversial tantric sex guru

Mongrel wrote:You guys have heard about the crazy seemingly-random bombings that have been hitting Austin, right (although the fourth incident may have been a copycat)?

Anyway, there was a fifth today as a package exploded in a FedEx facility before reaching its destination (Reuters).

TA wrote:

Mongrel wrote:You guys have heard about the crazy seemingly-random bombings that have been hitting Austin, right (although the fourth incident may have been a copycat)?

Anyway, there was a fifth today as a package exploded in a FedEx facility before reaching its destination (Reuters).

Uh, they're not random. They're clearly racial.

CNN wrote:A possible explosion reported Tuesday night at a Goodwill store in Austin turned out to be unrelated. In that incident, an employee was injured by two "artillery simulators" in a donation box, said Ely Reyes, Austin's assistant police chief.

Texas bomber‘s rambling 25-minute video doesn’t present a motive: police