This sounds bad based on reports from yesterday’s court hearing. The Republican-selected judges will support Trump and damage Democrats. Ross has lied about the reason for the question. It will result in damage to the court’s credibility, too. Sad!
If #SCOTUS makes a habit of upholding Trump Administration policies on the basis of ostentatiously false explanations, it will encourage profound cynicism about the rule of law and justified doubt about its own legitimacy.#Census2020
— Joshua Matz (@JoshuaMatz8) April 23, 2019
Some quick thoughts on the Supreme Court conservative majority seeming inclined in oral arguments to support the Trump administration's addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, as it pertains to Mitch McConnell:
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 25, 2019
Attempting court packing may be the only sensible response if the census case goes the direction it looks like it’s going to go. https://t.co/MA9iQOCgly
— Slate (@Slate) April 24, 2019
They put a citizenship question in the census to chill participation among immigrant communities – this is something Bannon and Miller and anti immigrant forces were pushing, and if you think the Trump DOJ wanted more data to better enforce the Voting Rights Act you are nuts.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) April 24, 2019
NEW: John Gore, head of the DOJ Civil Rights division, will not show up for a deposition tomorrow with Cummings' committee because they won't let him bring in DOJ lawyers. They want to ask him about the 2020 census citizenship question.
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) April 24, 2019
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How the citizenship question could break the census
I expected this from Roberts. Utterly disingenuous, and a part of his ongoing efforts to deny voting rights to minorities. We saw it in Shelby County. https://t.co/VQM170wSk5
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 23, 2019
With citizenship question on census, "California would probably lose a (House) seat, and other states with large immigrant populations, such as New York and Texas, could lose seats as well." https://t.co/hnItr3t0t6
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) April 22, 2019
At Supreme Court argument Tuesday on Census citizenship question, 9 justices and 4 Pinocchios: https://t.co/QbtjuOUmLr
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) April 22, 2019
The Trump administration and Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices Tuesday held a legal seminar on how to preserve white hegemony in four easy steps. https://t.co/Zzf0tvtwfi
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) April 23, 2019
Why are they asking that? A guide to the 2020 census via @PRBdatahttps://t.co/zIWbX7cEQ0
— All Things Census (@allthingscensus) April 24, 2019
At SCOTUS this morning, Justice Sotomayor was not buying the Trump administration's representation that the census has been asking about citizenship for decades. She cut into the SG's argument almost immediately and noted it hasn't been asked on decennial census since 1950
— Sam Levine (@srl) April 23, 2019
Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Trump’s push to add census citizenship question https://t.co/HoqdGzhwtc
— David Savage (@DavidGSavage) April 23, 2019
According to this early oral argument report, Chief Justice Roberts says getting citizenship question on census is essential to enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) April 23, 2019
But experts have said it is not. And the evidence shows this was not the reason that Ross wanted to add the question. https://t.co/MoLL4y6tuJ
JUST IN: You can listen to the Supreme Court oral arguments over the #2020Census #CitizenshipQuestion here👇https://t.co/LF6Zpn4fYi
— Hansi Lo Wang (@hansilowang) April 26, 2019
Sad! 