Washington Post - Eli Saslow: Conservative expert on immigration law, Kansas’s secretary of state Kris Kobach, to pursue suit against executive action - "He co-wrote 16 state laws and became one of the country’s most divisive politicians before ever being elected to state office." (The Mainstream Media always considers anyone not on the Left who is controversial to the Left as being "divisive" and polarizing, meaning there must be something inherently wrong with them.)

Conservative expert on immigration law to pursue suit against executive action

He has devoted his career to an immigration fight he always believed would be incremental. First he sued states for offering in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants. Then he wrote tough immigration enforcement laws for Arizona and Alabama. Then he counseled Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on the legality of using the National Guard to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. He has been playing the long game, hoping to build a consensus case against amnesty over the course of his career, but now, listening on the phone, it sounds to him as if Obama is saying the case is over and the ruling is in. If so, his life’s work is unraveling, and a last stand will have to come now.

“Unbelievable,” he says, listening to Obama explain the basics of his plan to defer action for up to 4 million illegal immigrants, and when Obama says he will no longer deport people who have “played by the rules,” he begins writing notes.

“Illegal means not playing by rules,” he writes.

“Huh?” he writes when Obama explains his reasons for acting alone. “You have NO AUTHORITY!” ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2014/11/22/f6d2b3fe-728a-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html