The Nebraska Supreme Court will hear arguments that a former state trooper with ties to the Ku Klux Klan should get his job back.

The state's high court was scheduled to take oral arguments in the case of Robert Henderson on Wednesday.

Attorney General Jon Bruning's office argues that Henderson should not be allowed to rejoin the State Patrol.

Henderson, a trooper for 18 years, was dismissed in 2006 after the patrol discovered he had joined a racist group. He told an investigator he joined the Knights Party -- which has described itself as the most active Klan organization in the United States -- in June 2004.

An arbitrator said Henderson was wrongly fired but a judge overturned that decision. Henderson appealed to the high court.