Supreme Court turns down Kris Kobach
Tue Jul 01, 2008 at 06:53:17 AM
BY CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI

It has been four years since Kansas lawmakers granted in-state tuition rates at public universities for undocumented students who had spent at least three years at a Kansas high school. Since that bill passed, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Professor and Kansas Republican Party Chairman Kris Kobach has been fighting to get the law overturned in the courts, arguing the children of illegal immigrants shouldn’t get a leg up on kids from across state lines.

Federal judges at both the district and appeals level have dismissed Kobach’s case, so he petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, the highest court in the land weighed in.


The court's reply: it won’t hear the case.

Kobach wasn’t particularly surprised. He admits it was a long shot. The U.S. Supreme Court typically receives 80,000 petitions a year, but only takes about 80 of them. “Your garden-variety case faces 99-to-1 odds against getting Supreme Court review,â€