Supreme Court expands scope of census citizenship question case
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it is expanding the scope of the case against the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, agreeing to decide whether the move violated the Constitution.
The move comes after a federal judge in California ruled earlier this month that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose agency oversees the census, violated the Constitution's Enumeration Clause because the citizenship question prevents the government from conducting an accurate count of every living person in the country.
A New York federal judge also blocked the administration from including the question, ruling in January that Ross "violated the public trust" by adding it. The judge called Ross' decision "arbitrary and capricious" because it would "materially reduce response rates among immigrant and Hispanic households."
The Supreme Court previously said it would examine whether the question violated federal administrative law. The court will hear arguments in the case in April and rule before its term ends in June.
Last year, a coalition of 17 states, Washington, D.C., and six cities sued the Commerce Department, citing a concern that fewer immigrants will respond to the survey and therefore decrease the accuracy of the 2020 census, which determines funding allocation and how political districts are drawn. Civil and immigrant rights groups also sued to block the question.
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The controversial question asks, "Is this person a citizen of the United States"?
The federal Judge in California is Richard Seeborg, who was appointed by President Barak Obama
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Prior to Seeborg's ruling a US District Judge in New York also blocked the question from being included in the census. That was judge Jesse Furman, who was also appointed by Obama.
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the supreme court does not just decide to get involved in order to agree with a lower court.
they intend to overturn those lower courts and rule in OUR favor.
Why would any immigrant who is now a citizen be afraid to answer that question on the census? Unless of by "immigrant" the writer of the article really means "illegal alien".
Ross argued that "The question was added...……………………………..to properly enforce The Voting Rights Act." Yeah. And....."I'm like a really smart guy" too.
Heh heh.
We want them counted ...AND...WE WANT THEM COUNTED FOR WHAT THEY ARE - NON CITIZENS!!!
Maybe we find out a reasonable estimate of how many non-citizens are living here.