Posted on 04/23/2019 11:17:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dept. Commerce v. New York, the case against the Trump administration for adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census.
According to those who watch SCOTUS closely and were in the room, it looks like the Trump administration is on the way to a win.
In Supreme Court arguments on adding a citizenship question to the census, all signs pointed to the usual 5-4 split, meaning that the court’s conservative majority is poised to allow the question.— Adam Liptak (@adamliptak) April 23, 2019
Supreme Court's ideological divide on full display as #scotus takes up Trump administration’s census citizenship question. The court's conservative majority seemed open to deferring to Commerce Secretary's decision to add question https://t.co/EVC3ikTuOj— Robert Barnes (@scotusreporter) April 23, 2019
Just got out of census arguments. I think SCOTUS will uphold the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census by a 5–4 vote.— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 23, 2019
From Bloomberg:
Key U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed inclined to let the Trump administration add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census in a clash that will shape the allocation of congressional seats and federal dollars.
In an 80-minute argument Tuesday that was both technical and combative, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh directed almost all their questions to the lawyers challenging the decision to ask about citizenship. Kavanaugh said Congress gave the Commerce secretary "huge discretion" to decide what to ask on the census.
A final ruling on the case will be announced by the end of June.
After trump’s third term we will have 9 thomas’s
A more detailed examination confirms that the citizenship question has been asked historically from 1820 to 1950 for all persons. From 1970 to 2010 the question was asked on the long form.
Starting with the 2010 Census, a “long form” completed by a sample percentage of the population was no longer used. Instead, the Census Bureau in 2005 began using a monthly “American Community Survey.” The survey served as an ongoing intercensal activity which was used to determine how some federal and state funds were to be distributed across the population. The American Community Survey was sent to about 300,000 households each month for a total of 3.6 million per year. This form asked about citizenship.
https://abundantgenealogy.com/citizenship-question-us-census/
:-)
President Trump’s “third term” has a nice ring to it.
“How could it be in the NATIONS interest not to measure non citizen population?”
Why would you count them? They aren’t citizens or permanent residents, they may be gone before the counting is finished. Their home country can count them.
Conservative majority?
One reason is to find the illegal aliens so we can get their A$$ out of OUR country!!
They will hear that case in their next term I believe and hand down a decision next summer, 2020. They just accepted a case including one of the plaintiffs from here in Georgia who was fired for stealing but claims it was because he is homosexual.
I’m betting 6-3......aka....the 3 women again...
Previous census asked...Citizen/Alien
Plug in census forms and you will get an ancestry site with all the forms which you can look it.
The census was to be a head count....period.
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