2h2 hours ago
Here is why the Census case is the superlative opportunity to draw a line in the sand on separation of powers
Courts dont draft census surveys the same way Roberts himself admitted they dont draw election maps, which themselves are determined by such census information. That is inherently one of the most political questions by nature in our system.
Statute [13 U. S. C. §141(a)] says very clearly that the secretary of commerce shall, in the year 1980 and every 10 years thereafter, take a decennial census of population. . . in such form and content as he may determine,
The Constitution grants the president authority to ask the citizenship question, statute grants the president such authority, the question has been the very essence of the census for most of our history, including our founding, and the president fulfilled the dictates of the APA.
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