Well said!
In my view CJ Roberts really split hairs with his opinion that Commerce has the authority but in essence has to give a better reason.
Like you say, it should be a simple thing but with the agendas of leftist judges you never know.
CJ ROberts has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be a leftist buttboy.
I haven’t tortured myself by reading the Administrative Law Act, but my concern is that there is a massive bureaucratic process involved (advertising the content and explanation, a series of public comments and hearings, official responses, re-advertising, more comments and hearing, ad nauseum), full of technicalities that the Lawfare scum can exploit. Otherwise, why didn’t the Commerce Department just explain the reasons in previous court challenges?
Since the Commerce folks seem incapable of forming a justification statement, here’s one: “In this time of high immigration of all types, an accurate count of citizens and non-citizen residents is necessary for forming effective public policy, seeking and making appropriations, assessing budgets, and administrating federal programs.” Someone’s going to argue that it isn’t?