Posted on 04/23/2019 9:40:57 AM PDT by jazusamo
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that Hispanics may have a “rational fear” of their answers to the census being misused by the Trump administration, as she argued against including a question about citizenship in the 2020 count.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on the thorny question, with the liberal justices saying they feared millions of people — Hispanics in particular — will toss the forms into the trash rather than fill them out, distorting the entire 2020 count.
“Are you sure they don’t have a rational fear?” Justice Sotomayor challenged the government’s lawyer.
The government said the question has been asked before, provides important information and besides, refusing to answer the census is illegal, so catering to the potential for Americans’ to take illegal action is fraught with its own perils.
Besides, there are ways to go out and find people who refused to fill out their forms, thus ensuring the government can get the information it needs — including citizenship information, said Noel Francisco, the U.S. solicitor general, arguing the case for President Trump and the administration.
He said the citizenship data is worth it even if it means more hassle and the potential for fewer responses.
“There’s always going to be a tradeoff,” he told the court.
A citizenship question was standard on the full census for more than 100 years, then was shunted to the so-called “long form” census along with a bunch of other demographic and sociological questions in 1960. It’s still asked now on the American Community Survey, another census survey, though it’s not part of the questionnaire that goes to everyone.
That history complicates the argument over adding it back in.
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The question is, does she have a rational fear? What is she hiding?
Dumb ass b-—h!
And WE don’t have a reasoned need to ask the question?
These asshole Leftists sure confirm your deepest fears don’t they.
Totally f’n clueless.
Typical Democrat. She is hispanic first, Democrat second, and American third. Hey Roberts, still don’t believe there are Democrat judges and Republican judges?
Um excuse me, wise Latina, the fact that they might be scared of the question is irrelevant. The question is: is it unconstitutional for the United States census and more specifically, the US government to know if the person is in this country illegally? Of all of the questions asked by the census, many of them uncomfortably personal, the question about citizenship is needed to maintain accuracy. Being scared is not a valid reason to keep from asking citizenship status.
Conscienceness of guilt.
I agree and believe that Dems, liberals and leftists are against the question of citizenship on the census in large part is simply because President Trump is for it.
The legal system is so screwed up that the SC doesn’t even believe in the rule of law.
That she shoots off her mouth on an issue that could quite possibly come before her in Court tells me we need a different Justice on the Court.
Pretty sure the legal citizens have absolutely no fear of this question.
Well said, I second that. :^)
Trump’s popularity amongst Hispanics is up.
Hey Sotomayor, are you a moron? Legals do not have any fear. ILLEGALS will and should...
I’ll go with that!
Illegal aliens are the only ones with anything to fear because they are ILLEGAL ALIENS!
> “Are you sure they don’t have a rational fear?”
What’s that got to do with the Constitution?
awww, shaddup, sonia...
Any non-citizen should understand they have no legal status.
Epic beatdown is coming ...
Who will write the majority opinion ?!?
Roberts I think.
President Trump
Because she’s racist.
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