American Thinker:
In Department of Commerce v. New York, Chief Justice Roberts joined with the Court’s four social justice warriors (Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Breyer, Kagan) in refusing to uphold the Commerce Department’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
The decision was important but should not be overblown. Roberts’s rationale was based on a narrow point and is remediable. On the substance, he was with the four conservative justices.
The flaw in the administration’s approach is that the Department of Commerce chose to peg its decision to a need to obtain better information to enforce the Voting Rights Act. No one believes this, and Roberts said, quoting a distinguished judge of his student days, “Our review is deferential, but we are ‘not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free'” (Slip. Op. at 28). He wants Commerce to level with the Court.
And so it should. The real issue, as every fool knows, is that the Census includes illegal aliens for purposes of apportioning legislative seats and electoral votes, a practice with profound effects on our political system. Understanding the dimensions of the issue is crucial to the functioning of our polity.
Monica Showalter and Daniel John Sobieski have discussed these effects with their usual perspicuity here in AT. One would be well advised to read these articles, because you certainly will not learn about the problems in the 92 pages of Supreme Court opinion. The closest you will come is reading the four SJWs’ concern that asking a citizenship question will cause an undercounting of illegal aliens, and this will deprive these non-citizens of the representation to which they, and the states that harbor them, are entitled.
The issue of the Census question on citizenship is important, but more significant is a case in a U.S. District Court in Alabama, in which the state and U.S. representative Mo Brooks claim that the Constitution actually prohibits inclusion of illegal aliens in the population base for purposes of apportionment.
The MSM pay no attention to this lawsuit because they want to keep the Overton Window firmly fixed. But the plaintiffs have serious arguments, and even if they lose, they should open our collective eyes to possibilities of congressional or presidential action. read more
“and even if they lose, “…we all lose and probably the country as well. Such a simple issue even a snail with one brain cell should understand.
I forgot who it was on Fox News that suggested Republicans in solid blue states NOT respond to the census so as to reduce the congressional representation of the state.
This could be the most significant and momentous Cencus in our country’s history. Trump should sign an Executive Order and delay the Cencus until this gets fixed. Let’s see how Justice Roberts deals with that. Roberts cost this country billions of dollars with his asinine decision on Obamacare, and now he wants to cost this country billions of dollars on illegal aliens while they destroy the very foundation of the United States.
Now we need permission to uphold the Commerce Department’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
WTF?
It’s not even on the application form to be a census taker!
Really want to take a census?
Ignore the addresses on death records (Grand Pop died in 1999, 18 years later these idiots still want to interview him), Social Securities Retirees, and those that file taxes! Merge A&E Live PD with Citibank, 30 seconds later you’ll know to put them a bus or take them to the station.
I know that would be just a Trump way of doing things,,,
Efficient
ROLL TIDE?????!!!
WAR EAGLE!
Fuck’em. Just use the same form as was used in 2000, which included the citizenship question. Let the Dems sue to stop the census.