Hundreds of miles from Arizona, law professor Kris Kobach leaned back in his chair at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, took a sip of coffee out of a Justice Department mug, and calmly defended the controversial immigration law he helped write.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kobach-arizona-20100513,0,6646845.storyBy Anna Gorman – Los Angeles Times