Supreme Court tosses citizenship question from 2020 census forms, a victory for Democratic sta

[Swordsmyth]

He folded. Time ran out.

Nope, there is still time.


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1146435093491277824

 

[Swordsmyth]

Also another source says the forms currently being printed can be trashed, if the litigation which Trump is continuing pans out.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Nope, there is still time.


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1146435093491277824

Supreme Court ended their current session June 27th. It will have to wait until they start up again to try to get them to re-hear the case. That won't be until October at the earliest. They have to get the census forms out before then.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Supreme Court ended their current session June 27th. It will have to wait until they start up again to try to get them to re-hear the case. That won't be until October at the earliest. They have to get the census forms out before then.

They don't need SCOTUS.
SCOTUS only said they had to provide a good reason NOT that they couldn't ask the question.

 

[Swordsmyth]

A day after pledging that the 2020 census would not ask respondents about their citizenship, Justice Department officials reversed course on Wednesday and said they were hunting for a way to restore the question on orders from President Trump.

More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/us/politics/census-citizenship-question.html

 

[Zippyjuan]

Nope, there is still time.


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1146435093491277824

Yet another deadline passed. And it was the Trump Administration's fault. They failed to show up in court to try to get the ruling appealed in a Maryland court.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48890233

It appeared settled when government lawyers indicated they had dropped the question, and officials began printing the census without it.

That reportedly infuriated President Trump, who announced that his administration would pursue the issue.

But a deadline of 14:00 (18:00 GMT) on Friday set by a Maryland district judge came and went, with no clear indication from the administration on how they planned to add the citizenship question.

Government lawyers said only that the justice and commerce departments had been "instructed to examine whether there is a path forward".

President Trump said on Friday an executive order was among the options he was considering to force the question on to the census.

"We have four or five ways we can do it," Mr Trump told reporters, suggesting the administration could "maybe do an addendum" after getting a positive decision.

But legal experts say executive orders could not override Supreme Court decisions.

The Trump administration said it wanted to ask about citizenship to better enforce a law that protects the voting rights of minorities, but the Supreme Court dismissed that justification.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...veal-us-census-citizenship-plan-idUSKCN1U01LG

Trump on Friday said the “number one” reason for adding the question was for the drawing of electoral districts, which is not the legal reason the administration originally gave for adding it.

The administration had originally told the courts the question was needed to better enforce a law that protects the voting rights of racial minorities.

A group of states including New York and immigrant rights organizations challenged the legality of the citizenship question, arguing among other things that the U.S. Constitution requires congressional districts to be distributed based on a count of “the whole number of persons in each state” with no reference to citizenship. Three different federal judges blocked the administration before the Supreme Court intervened.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Yet another deadline passed. And it was the Trump Administration's fault.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48890233

Thanks for your concern but I'm not concerned, Trump has this.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Cue the meltdown because one looks like one could hit liberal America very soon. We’ve been haggling over the citizenship question in the 2020 census. It’s been asked before in past surveys. As the Department of Justice was ordered to look into ways to include the key question, AG Barr recently announced that a path might have been found (via Post and Courier):

AG William Barr told reporters he's found a "pathway" for getting the #CitizenshipQuestion back onto the #2020Census. This comes a day after the DOJ reassigned the lawyers who have handled the case for more than a year.
— Michael Macagnone (@mikemacagnone) July 8, 2019​

In a visit to South Carolina on Monday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said the Trump administration will present a legal work-around that will allow a question on citizenship to be added to the 2020 Census.
Speaking to reporters after a scheduled stop at a federal prison, Barr said, “I think over the next day or two you’ll see what approach we’re taking and I think it does provide a pathway for getting the question on the census.”
He did not provide details in his brief remarks.
Barr also expressed little concern for the pending testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller to federal lawmakers next week on his investigation into U.S. election interference by the Russian government.
[…]
While Barr would not detail the administration’s plans regarding the census questionnaire, a senior official said President Donald Trump is expected to issue a memorandum to the Commerce Department instructing it to require census respondents to say whether they are citizens, the Associated Press reported Monday.


More at: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/07/08/ag-barr-census-n2549719