TOPEKA, Kan. (KAKE) - Governor Laura Kelly announced Friday that she has filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Kris Kobach in the Kansas Supreme Court to "protect the State of Kansas and the constitutional powers of the Office of the Governor."

The governor's office said in a release that the lawsuit was necessary due to "Kobach’s failure to defend Kansans against the Trump Administration’s unlawful federal overreach, despite repeated requests from Governor Kelly to do so."

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