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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Sotomayor health issue? Please tell us more.
Sotomeyor is not an associate justice, she is an advocate.
you would think a supreme court judge would actually understand what the official census were originally for - to set voting districts for CITIZENS (the only ones who can legally vote).
Time for your retirement judge on grounds of mental feebleness
And suppose they do have a “rational fear”.
What does that have to do with the Constitution, the law, or the carrying out of the Executive Branch’s responsibility?
If they are illegal, they have a rational fear of being CAUGHT.
Ask the question! And don’t ask about race/ethnicity!
“rational fear”.....LOL, in my world we call it Felons Guilt.
Fear of being asked if you are a citizen. What wonderful people.
The citizenship question has been asked for 200 years. They should go back to having census takers coming to your residence and everyone in the household is listed on the census, with the head of the household verifying for them all. To hell with computer generated counting. It’s ripe for fraud.
The citizenship question has been included in the census for 200 years. It went to the long form in 1965 and was deleted by Rahm Emanuel in 2010.
The citizenship question has always been necessary to adjust for slaves and to exclude non-taxed Indians. Subsequent amendments to the Constitution made it even more compelling to include the citizenship question.
The key population of the census is known as the ‘Apportionment Population’. This is the population of Americans that are entitled to representation in Congress. Not all who breathe the air inside the borders of the United States are entitled to representation in Congress.
On Obama’s orders, Rahm Emanuel deleted the citizenship question from the 2010 Census for one reason only, to include the enormous number of illegals which are by and large concentrated in Democratically controlled urban areas to be counted as part of the Apportion Population, thus apportioning more congressional seats to Democrat strongholds.
What really sucks are the people RIGHT HERE who are willing to enable her because so and so Republican is a RINO, and therefore they sit it out.
FDR rounded up Japanese citizens in the 1940s illegally using census data.
Deciding the efficiency of the census based on the questions is not the court’s purpose. The efficiency is to be decided by the administrative state. The court is to rule on the legality of it. Who may or may not throw it away has nothing to do with the legality.
Republican Party is not a good product.
Automatic recusal
“Hispanics” is a made up thing you TARD!!!
She is a Type 1 diabetic
That’s my take. Plus, perhaps she doesn’t recognize the existence of “illegals”, in general. Many liberals take that line. “There’s no such thing as an illegal person blah blah blah”)
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