By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Kansas U.S. Senator Dr. Roger Marshall has faced some tough decisions as a physician and he drew on that experience in making his first tough decision in his new office about choosing to object to the certification of some slates of electors when the topic comes up on Wednesday.
"A young lady who, I delivered three of her babies, she was in her late twenties and I had to tell her she had metastatic breast cancer," Marshall said. "With that diagnosis, it's not a good prognosis. There's not a black and white treatment plan. But, the first thing I want to do is I want to gather all the facts. I want to get a second and third opinion."
Marshall sought counsel from his now colleagues.
"I'm not a constitutional lawyer," Marshall said. "I did talk to the Mike Lees and the Ted Cruzes of the world up here in constitutional law. I read the Constitution, the relevant parts of it, several times. Much like that patient I was trying to talk to, this is a decision of the heart."
Marshall doesn't know for sure how much wrong there is or isn't, but he wants to find out.
"I feel like our U.S. Constitution was violated," Marshall said. "I took an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution gives the states the right, the requirement that the state legislators write the rules for how to conduct a presidential election."
Marshall says at least four states violated their own law and he'd like to see further investigation into the matter and that's the reason he will be one of the Senators to object.