Rest easy Dems, the overwhelmingly Democrat Kansas SC is almost certainly going to order Taylor's removal from the ballot. The
statute in question requires:
(b) Any person who has been nominated by any means for any national, state, county or township office who declares that they are incapable of fulfilling the duties of office if elected may cause such person's name to be withdrawn from nomination by a request in writing, signed by the person and acknowledged before an officer qualified to take acknowledgments of deeds.
Taylor's letter evidently did not declare that he is "incapable of fulfilling the duties of office if elected" - intead, he only referred to the statute. The Court is going to allow him to wiggle out by ruling that a reference to the statute is the same thing as the declaration required by the statute. This will be an odd ruling, but politics evidently trumps the law. Maybe next time I'm sworn in as a witness, I'll just "swear to do everything listed in K.S.A. ____." Should be legally sufficient, right?
Odder still, the Kansas Democrat party is making no secret of the fact that they don't intend to replace Taylor on the ballot with another Democrat, which is also expressly required by the law. However, that question is not before the Court. Kobach will have to file his own lawsuit, which the Court won't decide until after the ballots sans Taylor have already been printed.
So, instead of there being a liberal on the ballot running as a Democrat, there will be a liberal on the ballot running as an Independent. The Democrat Party Motto: Lie, Cheat, Steal, Just Win By Any Means Necessary.