Kris Kobach, the former head of Trump’s Voter Fraud panel, which lasted about the same length of time as a donut at a cop convention, is all covered in misery right now.

Kris W. Kobach, the secretary of state in Kansas and face of the Trump administration’s efforts to clamp down on supposed voter fraud, was found by a federal judge on Wednesday to have disobeyed orders to notify thousands of Kansans in 2016 that they were registered to vote.

People in Kansas can register to vote when they get a driver’s license.  A court ruled that Kobach was supposed to send a postcard to people notifying them that they were registered to vote and the location of their voting poll.  It must have slipped his damn mind because he didn’t do it.

“The Court is troubled by Defendant’s failure to take responsibility for violating this Court’s orders, and for failing to ensure compliance over an issue that he explicitly represented to the Court had been accomplished,” the judge wrote.

Here’s my favorite part:

Judge Robinson did not impose a fine or other sanctions, but ordered Mr. Kobach to pay “reasonable” legal fees to the A.C.L.U.

Oh man, that’s gotta hurt.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Lookie here.

Yeah.

A new poll released Wednesday suggests the U.S. Senate race between U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke to be far more competitive than many political observers have initially thought.

The poll from Quinnipiac University shows the two men in a dead heat: 47 percent of registered voters in Texas support Cruz while 43 percent back O’Rourke, an El Paso Democrat.

That number falls within the poll’s 3.6 percent margin of error.

Ted Cruz is not human.  Seriously.  He’s one of those shape shifting reptilians the whacky people talk about.

Beto is a good one to beat him and a good one for Texas.

Remember Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, aka Satan, who stomped all over net neutrality and seems damn proud of it, is sliming his way across all communications.

A broadband adviser selected by Chairman Ajit Pai to run a federal advisory committee was arrested last week on claims she tricked investors into pouring money into a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scheme, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Come to find out, Pai isn’t any better at picking all the best people than Trump is.

Pierce was charged with wire fraud last Thursday and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Which would be an improvement on spending a month in the Trump  swamp.

Thanks to Henry for the heads up.

Okay, Aladamnbama. Evangelist Acton Bowen, 37 years old, has some child molestation charges against him currently pending.  Now he’s got seven more charges.

He faces two counts of second-degree sodomy, two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes and three counts of second-degree sexual abuse, according to jail records.

He was booked into jail on a $500,000 bond.

His wife filed for divorce.  And then …

On Friday, two of the ministry’s board members stepped down, include attorney Trenton Garmon, who worked as an attorney for former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore during his failed campaign bid for U.S. senate last year.

I don’t know about you, but I kinda think that Attorney Trenton Garmon needs to turn in his law license.

Acton describes himself as “a speaker, best-selling author and visionary.”

I ain’t buying the visionary crap because if he is a visionary, he’d have seen this coming.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Wanna know why Blake Farenthold resigned so abruptly?

Do you wanna know what’s gonna piss off Trump more than Stormy Daniels?

This.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump‘s selection last year for the Supreme Court, cast the deciding vote in a decision released Tuesday that sided with an immigrant fighting his deportation.

Gorsuch ruled with the court’s four liberal justices in favor of the immigrant, James Garcia Dimaya, who argued that his convictions on two burglary charges did not represent a violent crime.