Abhishek Kambli

Deputy Attorney General - Special Litigation and Constitutional Issues, Office of the Kansas Attorney General

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Topics:

Affirmative Action • Article I Initiative • Constitution • Criminal Law & Procedure • Culture • Due Process • Election Law • Federal Courts • Federalism • Federalist Society • First Amendment • Foreign Policy • Founding Era & History • Fourteenth Amendment • Fourth Amendment • Jurisprudence • Law & Economics • Litigation • Philosophy • Politics • Religious Liberty • Second Amendment • Separation of Powers • State Governments • Supreme Court • Federalism & Separation of Powers • International & National Security Law • Religious Liberties • Originally Speaking • The Practice Groups • State Constitutions

Abhishek Kambli currently serves as Deputy Attorney General at the Kansas Attorney General’s Office where he leads the Special Litigation and Constitutional Issues Division. In that capacity he litigates the Kansas AG office’s most high impact cases, such as Kansas v. Biden (later renamed Alaska v. Department of Education) where he successfully argued for a preliminary injunction against the SAVE plan that would have provided $475 billion in student loan forgiveness. He was also lead counsel on Kansas v. Department of Education which enjoined the 2024 Title IX rule that expanded the definition “sex” to include gender identity under Title IX and Kansas v. Department of Labor, where he argued for and won a preliminary injunction on a Department of Labor rule that would have provided federal collective bargaining rights to H-2A workers. In addition, he was counsel of record on a 26-state amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in Beals v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, where the Court ultimately allowed the Commonwealth of Virginia to remove noncitizens from its voter role prior to the 2024 election.

Before serving the state of Kansas, he was an assistant United States attorney prosecuting federal crimes within the Southern District of Indiana. He also served as a JAG officer in the United States Air Force where he still serves in the Reserves. He holds a juris doctorate from Notre Dame Law School.

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