Posted on 07/01/2019 11:08:06 AM PDT by Starman417
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts may go down in judicial history as the worst Republican SCOTUS pick ever. The man who found Obamacare constitutional by inventing the fiction that it was a tax, has joined the court’s four liberals to block a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, not because it is unconstitutional, but rather because he didn’t like the Trump administration’s reasons for asking for it.
The man who supervises the FISA Court, which blindly accepted every lie and fake document the Obama FBI and DOJ put before it to justify the deep state coup against the Trump presidency, says the reasons Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross presented for requesting its inclusion, well, didn’t smell right. As the New York Times reported:
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, said the explanation offered by the Trump administration for adding the question “appears to have been contrived.”…So bleepin’ what? The question before the Court is whether adding the question to the Census form was constitutional or not and certainly whatever reason Ross gave made more sense than your reason, Justice Roberts, for calling Obamacare a tax. How about the reason that the federal government has asked its, dare we use the word, citizens the question before. The Supreme Court is a great admirer of precedent, is it not, As Breitbart News notes:“The secretary,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote, “was determined to reinstate a citizenship question from the time he entered office; instructed his staff to make it happen; waited while commerce officials explored whether another agency would request census-based citizenship data; subsequently contacted the attorney general himself to ask if D.O.J. would make the request; and adopted the Voting Rights Act rationale late in the process.”
“Altogether,” the chief justice wrote, “the evidence tells a story that does not match the explanation the secretary gave for his decision.”
The first census to ask about citizenship was the one conducted in 1820, and the last was 1950. After 1950, the Census Bureau – which is part of the Commerce Department – has continued to ask that question on the “long form” census form that goes to some census-takers, as well as on its yearly questionnaire that goes to a small number of households each year, called the American Community Survey (ACS).The Census is used for everything from the distribution of federal funding, to enforcing the Voting Rights Act, to the required redrawing of Congressional district lines. The reason the Democrats want to count illegal aliens is to shift the demographics of America, pick up extra Congressional seats from places like Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and turn red states purple if not outright blue.
Asking this question is necessary to the functioning of a modern state and is an international norm, not the wet dream of white supremacists. As Hans von Spankovsky writes in the Washington Examiner:
To have an informed debate, shouldn’t we have accurate information about the citizen/noncitizen population of the country? In fact, even the United Nations recommends that its member countries ask a citizenship question on their census surveys, and countries ranging from Australia to Germany to Indonesia all ask this question. Only in the U.S. is this considered at all controversial — and it shouldn’t be.Knowing who we are is as important as knowing how many we are, a fact recognized internationally by nations still holding on to their sovereignty. As Marc A. Thiessen writes in the Washington Post:
There is nothing wrong with asking about citizenship. Canada asks a citizenship question on its census. So do Australia and many other U.S. allies. The U.S. government asked about citizenship for 130 years — from 1820 to 1950 — as part of the decennial “short form” census and continued to do so in the “long form” survey — distributed to 1 in 6 people — through 2000, when the long form was replaced by the annual American Community Survey. The ACS goes to about 2.6 percent of the population each year and asks about citizenship to this day. …The citizenship question on the census matters because citizenship itself matters or at least it still should. In an era where progressives insist education and health care is a right for every human being and that proving who you are shouldn’t be a requirement to vote, where illegal aliens from South America can get in-state college tuition but children of war vets from neighboring states cannot, does citizenship even matter?Illegal immigrants are here illegally. If they choose to violate U.S. law yet again by refusing to participate in the census because of a perfectly legitimate question about citizenship, that’s not the U.S. government’s fault.
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Roberts is still being blackmailed. PATHETIC!!
A lot of people thought Roberts was being blackmailed. Turns out he’s just back stabbing traitor.
That's unfortunate, you acting that way.
I pity you.
It’s clearly Constitutional to include the citizenship question in the census. This “Roberts’ move” is CLEARLY intended to drag the question out to a point where it really will be too late to include on the census. The COMPROMISED ROBERTS is following the direction given to him by his handlers.
The Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
The most important project of Fedzilla for the past 30 years.
Replacing the electorate.
Someone should find out how they are blackmailing him, and throw all of that information out on front pages everywhere. Then impeach him, remove him, move on.
IT’s also due to a really crappy argument made by the Commerce Secretary and his attornies. But...Roberts adopted kids from Ireland...where it is prohibited. Go figure...
I think it is worse than that. I think the Chief Justice role went to his head and he is trying to be everything to all sides of the spectrum. His every ruling, even good, is convoluted and contorted. He is reaching for some sort of bridge on every matter he sees.
John Roberts is a weasel and should be disbarred; that is if he is even an attorney. Seems more like a commie leftist hack to me.
Roberts' behavior calls to mind an observation by the late journalist, M. Stanton Evans:
"The reason our guys [conservatives] never get into high places is that as soon as they get into high places, they're no longer our guys."
He has a long way to go to beat earl warren. Still both suck.
I don't think Roberts is a liberal as much as just squishy "Jeb Bush" type conservative, who is more interested in appearances than advancing the conservative cause.
John Roberts is a crap sandwich served with a black robe.
As bad as Roberts has betrayed the president who put him on the court, he doesn’t hold a candle to Earl Warren and William Brennan, appointed by Eisenhower. They took prayer out of schools and started us down the road we are still on.
Both republican appointees. Go figure.
The purpose of the census is to count citizens, not people passing through the country.
“Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside...
“Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers...”
Amendment XIV
Thank you George W. Bush and thank your globalist clan.
Chief Justice Roberts is the the person responsible for the oversight of the FISA court.
It’s looking like he has been, at the very least, negligent in his duty. His highly politicized track record, especially when it comes to President Trump is very suspicious , especially in light of the overt and blatant abuses of the FISA court under his watch.
There needs to some scrutiny of his conduct
Chief ‘Justice’ John Roberts is traitorous. He doesn’ t ‘rule’ by the Constitution, he ‘rules’ by what the Leftists want. Along with the other totally partisan ‘justices’.
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