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...stand up to scrutiny? "There are some things that states can do and some that states can't do, but this law threads the needle perfectly," says Kris Kobach, a University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor who helped write the legislation. He believes it will withstand constitutional challenge. "In the bill, Arizona only penalizes what is already a crime under federal law," says Kobach, a Yale Law School graduate and onetime counsel to former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. "That constitutes concurrent enforcement in legal terms, which the courts have said is permissible." Says Mark Krikorian, executive...
...words, to out-of-state residents too. So states crafted rules that aren't based on residency. To qualify for in-state rates at public colleges in Kansas, for example, you must spend three years in the state's high schools. University of Missouri--Kansas City law professor Kris Kobach, counsel for 24 out-of-state students challenging the law, says this still violates the federal statute as well as the Constitution's equal-protection clause by "discriminating against U.S. citizens." Says plaintiff Heidi Hydeman, an Iowan who paid out-of-state fees (now $12,691 a year...
...unusual was this year's crop that several rooming groups had two fellowship winners under the same roof. Kris W. Kobach '88 and his roommate Alexander E. Dreier '88 captured a Marshall and Rhodes respectively. And they are not alone. Gary D. Rowe '88, winner of the Henry--a scholarship reserved for Harvard and Yale students--and his roommate Robert W. Cook '88, who won the Knox--another Harvard-only scholarship--will both be going to England next year...
...unbelievable. The chances of it occurring are infinitestimally small," says Kobach of his and Dreier's achievement. He says some colleges would consider themselves lucky if they won two such scholarships in total, let alone two in one suite. To top things off, Dreier and Kobach will both be going to Oxford next year, and they will both be studying in the same masters program...
...Kobach and Dreier joke that they are not surprised they both won, although they add that they thought Dreier would win the Marshall and Kobach the Rhodes. They say they supported each other throughout the process and even read each other's essays. But Dreier says their relationship did get a little tense after he found out in December that he had won the Rhodes; the Marshalls were not announced until a month later...