U.S. Supreme Court to decide legality of census citizenship query

[Right_in_Virginia]

U.S. Supreme Court to decide legality of census citizenship query
Reuters, Feb 15, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide the fate of a fiercely contested plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, agreeing on Friday to an expedited review of a judge’s ruling blocking the plan.

The justices, in a brief order, granted the administration’s request to hear its appeal of Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman’s Jan. 15 ruling even before a lower appeals court has considered the matter. Oral arguments will take place in late April, with a ruling due by the end of June.

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Furman ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had concealed the true motives for his “arbitrary and capricious” decision to add the citizenship question in violation of federal law.

Opponents have accused the administration of trying to engineer an undercount of the true population and diminish the electoral representation of Democratic-leaning communities in Congress, benefiting Trump’s fellow Republicans. Non-citizens comprise an estimated 7 percent of people living in the United States.

Time is of the essence in the case, as the official census forms are due to be printed in the coming months.


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[montanajoe]

This is a prime example of the emotional idiocy that is just as prevelant on the right as it is on the left.

No matter what the decision of today's SC, the fact remains that Census records cannot be used to identify individuals that were counted for 70 years after the census anyone with an interest in their roots know this...

That so many on the right believe that the Dim minorities are kept on the reservation, while they themselves believe the census will identify illegal immigrants are also on a reservation ...an intellectual  reservation....

The talk radio entertainers will get ad revenue but this is a nothing burger..