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BumRushDaShow

(129,206 posts)
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 02:42 PM Feb 2019

Supreme Court takes up Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship in census

Source: Washington Post

The Supreme Court added a politically explosive case to its low-profile docket Friday, agreeing to decide by the end of June whether the Trump administration can add a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census form sent to every American household.

The census hasn’t asked the question of each household since 1950, and a federal judge last month stopped the Commerce Department from adding it to the upcoming count. He questioned the motives of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and said the secretary broke a “veritable smorgasbord” of federal rules by overriding the advice of career officials.

Those opposed to the question argue the census response rate will likely fall if households are asked whether undocumented immigrants are present, and make less accurate the once-a-decade “actual Enumeration” of the population required by the Constitution.

Because the administration said it needs to know by the end of June whether the census form can contain the question, the court bypassed its usual procedures to accept the case. The justices will directly review the 227-page opinion handed down by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman of New York, rather than require it first to go through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-takes-up-trump-administrations-plan-to-ask-about-citizenship-in-census/2019/02/15/1e0ce8e8-3138-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.773461d80eb5

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lark

(23,134 posts)
6. Yep, believe that is an accurate description.
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 03:11 PM
Feb 2019

We are truly fucked because this isn't a constitutional question so Roberts' will almost undoubtedly side with RW Russian/Repugs.

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
2. I think this is really bad.
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 02:56 PM
Feb 2019

The question has been on the census before, and with these 5 conservative justices, I don't see them blocking the question.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
9. Note that the question is still on the "community survey" (aka 'long form') version of the census...
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 03:33 PM
Feb 2019

that many households receive.

Mr.Bill

(24,310 posts)
10. It also has a lot to do with a few other things.
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 03:50 PM
Feb 2019

The fewer people that fill out their census form and send it in, thereby being not counted, the less federal funding that district will receive.

It also harms states that have a higher rates of non citizens, because if they don't fill out the form and return it they can actually lose congressional representation, since congressional districts are based on the census count of the population.

But you are correct in that it is all based on fear and people not filling out the form because of that fear.

Freethinker65

(10,028 posts)
7. They will ok it, big cities will lose Federal $$$
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 03:24 PM
Feb 2019

Trump will crow about it, but red/purple states will lose funding for major cities and will have to make up the difference in support. The economies of bigger more liberal cities keep smaller rural cities afloat...just as many "blue" states subsidize "red" states.

 

lancelyons

(988 posts)
8. i fear we are going to see the Large Scale problems with conservatives on the court
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 03:26 PM
Feb 2019

Soon we will start seeing many decisions that dont reflect the people's desires or the constitution. The supreme court will start ruling in favor of conservative ideas and the general plan that the conservatives had to take back their country at all costs will come to fruitition.

I hope not but I feel we are getting to that point.

These decisions these days are not the decisions of good just people and folks looking out for the constitution. These are decisions of Americans who feel that white and chrisitian are how USA should be controlled and all other challenges must be met with force.

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