Posted on 07/03/2019 4:48:29 PM PDT by Innovative
A high-ranking Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Trump administration has not abandoned efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census after all, just one day after the Census Bureau said it would start the process of printing the questionnaire without the query.
Assistant Attorney General Joseph Hunt said there may yet be "a legally available path" under last week's Supreme Court decision that blocked the question, at least temporarily. The Supreme Court left open the possibility that additional arguments could change its mind.
Hunt made his comments on a conference call with U.S. District Court Judge George Hazel Wednesday afternoon, following a tweet from President Trump insisting that efforts to include the citizenship question would proceed in earnest. Hazel said on the call that he had seen the tweet and wanted answers, and for the situation to be resolved by Friday afternoon.
"The Departments of Justice and Commerce have now been asked to reevaluate all available options following the Supreme Court’s decision and whether the Supreme Court’s decision would allow for a new decision to include the citizenship question on the 2020 Decennial Census," the DOJ said Wednesday in a letter to another federal judge in New York, without elaborating on who precisely made the request.
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Pres. Trump has not given up.
I hope they are successful in including the important citizenship question in the census.
Thanks Innovative.
You can find the transcript at this post.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3761409/posts?page=21
The headline is misleading if not deliberately deceiving. It is not a deadline. The judge set the next pow wow for Friday with some instructions to the government concerning information that he wants. From the transcript it looks like the 4th Circuit Court have given some instructions to the District Court suggesting that he has been told to move out and get the administrative issue resolved and they expect the discovery to be completed in 45 days from last week.
The DOJ told the judge that they may have a way ahead to resolve the remaining issue and still get the question on the Census. The Plantiffs lawyers squealed like stuck pigs and complained that this should be all over. They want a process foul to stop a question that has been declared to be Constitutional and to be forced to wait for 10 years.
Stay tuned.
So big deal, the federal government inefficiently mails an additional page. I've seen worse.
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
What if they just change the wording..
Are you a legal resident or naturalized person?
imho that would leave open the interpretation that a no answer would be ambiguous and invite a court to force a presumptive interpretation of one form or another (yikes)...
or neither?
True but wouldn’t that be same if they left the citizenship question blank?
Hazel is an Obama appointee. Question.....is he the one hearing the case re the GOP supposed advantage if this question were to be n the census?
Answer to my own question:
He is hearing the case to determine if the question constitutes discrimination.
Big deal? How would you like to process 100 million+ forms and then be told another 100 million will need to be processed. I think you underestimate the logistics and the additional labor needed not only to process but to have workers in the field needing to collect not just one form but going back to collect another if the household does not respond. Then you have to cross reference....a complete nightmare and a recipe for disaster.
Thank you for translating. Is it possible to discern if these district judges be friend or foe yet?
There is no “try”, there is only “do” or “do not”.
Have a signature line at the start or end of the Census.
I xxxxxx swear/attest, on my honor as a US Citizen, that all answers are truthful.
If you are not a legal US Citizen, send back the unanswered cencus
Well, then we’re just waiting for him to say, “No”.
Yep. He's hearing the equal protection challenge in MD.
Answer to my own question:
He is hearing the case to determine if the question constitutes discrimination.
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The IDENTICAL question would be asked to everyone. How would that be “discrimination”?
they (we) are forbidden from leaving anything blank. therefor, for citizenship, imho, the person answering would have to be discounted as a “citizen” since the answering party failed to give a dispositive answer the mandatory question. (otoh, i could be wrong about it...)
Why wouldn’t it be possible based on the court’s decision? They said they could see no basis for blocking such a question. But they temporarily did anyway. Roberts is despicable.
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