Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach joined an 18 state coalition calling on the United States Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision giving officials license to stifle their political opponents’ protected speech by financially crippling them. The case focuses around Maria Vullo, the former Superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services, who engaged in politically motivated campaign against the financial institutions doing business with the NRA, but steered clear of any explicit threats. The financial institutions got the message to “drop the NRA, or else.”
The Attorneys General also argue that the lower court’s decision in the case erodes First Amendment safeguards for private political speech and paves the way for the Government to suppress speech it doesn’t agree with, or doesn’t like.
