Challengers in census case notify justices about new evidence

ScotusBlog ^ | 05/30/2019 | Amy Howe

[aimhigh]

It has been just over a month since the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a challenge to the decision by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. A federal district court in New York had blocked the government from using the question, ruling that the government’s conduct had violated the federal law governing administrative agencies. But the district court concluded that the challengers had not shown that the question had been added out of an intent to discriminate against Latinos and other immigrant communities.

Today the challengers alerted the Supreme Court to new evidence indicating that a Republican redistricting strategist had played a key role in the decision to add the citizenship question to create an advantage for whites and Republicans in future elections.

The notification came in a letter to the Supreme Court from Dale Ho, a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union who argued on behalf of the challengers last month. The challengers, Ho wrote, had filed a motion in the district court suggesting that the government should be sanctioned because the new evidence contradicted both testimony by senior government officials and representations by government lawyers in the case.

[Regulator]

“to create an advantage for whites and Republicans”

So he’s admitting that most non-citizens here are neither?

Thanks for validating our suspicions there “Dale”.

[ptsal]

chain of custody....

[exDemMom]

The American people have a right to not have districts redrawn and electors granted on the basis of how many illegal alien invaders are present in the districts.

In the early days of our country, southern Democrats tried to have slaves counted as regular citizens in order to inflate their own political power, even though they did not consider slaves as the equivalent of citizens. The 3/5 of a person rule was a compromise to limit southern Democrats’ ability to inflate their political power on the backs of those they subjugated.

Can anyone explain how counting illegal aliens as if they are citizens is any less of a power grab?

Clearly, DemocRATs have not changed at all.

[BigEdLB]

Once a case has been argued, how do they add “new evidence”. Especially after all the appeals that have happened

[yesthatjallen]

Today the challengers alerted the Supreme Court to new evidence indicating that a Republican redistricting strategist had played a key role in the decision to add the citizenship question to create an advantage for whites and Republicans in future elections.

Related:

Deceased G.O.P. Strategist’s Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question

I predicted this:

"They found their villain and now they're going to compose their narrative around him."

[maxwellsmart_agent]

This case by the ACLU is just absolutely silly. Why a question about whether or not you are a citizen can be included even was questioned is rediculous. It provides information for the country to provide for it’s citizens. The democrats want illegal aliens to stay for future elections because some of their current voting base is waking up. That is what this case is all about.

[Gay State Conservative]

Census takers ask questions about marital status and income.Info like that can easily be used to discriminate.

[originalbuckeye]

Yes, his ‘estranged’ daughter ‘found’ the new evidence on an old hard drive at his house.

Gee, you don’t think she might have an AGENDA, do you?

[mosesdapoet]

Back President Trump's effort to make certain the census form contains the citizenship question in it and no reference to race. But to the country of where the respondent is a citizen of if not an American citizen. TIME TO END HYPHENATING AMERICANS One thing the Mexican Constitution has that we should consider doing.Mexico has no hyphenated Mexicans. They prohibit any reference to race when they conduct a census or issue any means of identification, Where a photo id is not available physical description is needed skin color yes but not by race but by nationality.. By doing this Mexico has avoided �balkanizing�, creating fractional disputes in areas where a given group in one of its states is a majority or a minority. Plus it could play a significant part in shutting down the political playing off racial divisions between Americans by the Democrats. One thing the Mexican Constitution has that we should consider doing.Mexico has no hyphenated Mexicans. They prohibit any reference to race when they conduct a census or issue any means of identification, Where a physical description is needed skin color yes but not by race or nationality or tribal background.By doing this Mexico has avoided "balkanizing", creating fractional disputes in areas where a given group in one of its states is a majority or a minority. Plus it could play a significant part in shutting the political playing off racial divisions down.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Can anyone explain how counting illegal aliens as if they are citizens is any less of a power grab?

The drafters of the 14th Amendment knew how to say "citizens"-- that word appears three times in that amendment. But when the 14th Amendment gets around to talking about Congressional representation, it says, "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state..." The "whole number of persons" obviously is a broader class than "citizens."

[morphing libertarian]

Representation without taxation

[lepton]

There’s more to that Amendment. While it supports your use of the word persons, it calculates a net total more akin to that which exDemMom implies.

[catnipman]

“Once a case has been argued, how do they add “new evidence”. Especially after all the appeals that have happened”

i don’t think they can ... sounds like a publicity stunt ...

[trebb]

They got the C. B. Ford woman to makeup her skin to look Latino and then tell in a squeaky voice how years ago, at a party, someone said that because of census data, they would handcuff her to stop her from voting....