AG William Barr told reporters he's found a "pathway" for getting the #CitizenshipQuestion back onto the #2020Census . This comes a day after the DOJ reassigned the lawyers who have handled the case for more than a year.
Posted on 07/08/2019 3:23:20 PM PDT by jazusamo
Cue the meltdown because one looks like one could hit liberal America very soon. We’ve been haggling over the citizenship question in the 2020 census. It’s been asked before in past surveys. As the Department of Justice was ordered to look into ways to include the key question, AG Barr recently announced that a path might have been found (via Post and Courier ):
AG William Barr told reporters he's found a "pathway" for getting the #CitizenshipQuestion back onto the #2020Census . This comes a day after the DOJ reassigned the lawyers who have handled the case for more than a year.
In a visit to South Carolina on Monday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said the Trump administration will present a legal work-around that will allow a question on citizenship to be added to the 2020 Census.
Speaking to reporters after a scheduled stop at a federal prison, Barr said, “I think over the next day or two you’ll see what approach we’re taking and I think it does provide a pathway for getting the question on the census.”
He did not provide details in his brief remarks.
Barr also expressed little concern for the pending testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller to federal lawmakers next week on his investigation into U.S. election interference by the Russian government.
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While Barr would not detail the administration’s plans regarding the census questionnaire, a senior official said President Donald Trump is expected to issue a memorandum to the Commerce Department instructing it to require census respondents to say whether they are citizens, the Associated Press reported Monday.
The Supreme Court in June delivered a blow to Trump’s push to have the government ask about an individual’s citizenship on next year’s census.
After the Supreme Court decision, Trump had mulled delaying the census or issuing an executive order on the matter. Democrats hate this question for two reasons: 1. It’s a Trump initiative, so by default, they have to be against it, and b) it strikes at the heart of their power base. Democrats have increased their clout on the Hill with the inclusion of illegal aliens. It’s quite simple, if you can’t vote here, you shouldn’t be counted. The allegations of racism have been lobbed. It’s all trash. Yet, we’ve hit a roadblock. The Supreme Court sent this matter back to the lower courts for review because, well, the Commerce Department’s legal team didn’t offer the best of reasons for its inclusion. It appears as if they bungled the arguments, leading to Chief Justice John Roberts siding with liberals in the 5-4 decision. The Court didn’t rule the question was unconstitutional. Yet, time was enemy. There was not enough time to settle this matter before the surveys would start printing.
The Trump White House appeared to cave on issuing the census without the question but changed course hours later. Trump ordered the DOJ to look into legal avenues to include to question in the survey. A new team was assembled to look into pathways (via WSJ ):
A new team of government lawyers will be taking charge of the census fight, the Justice Department said, as the Trump administration continues to search for a legally acceptable way to include a citizenship question in the 2020 survey despite a recent Supreme Court decision barring it.
With little explanation on Sunday, a department spokeswoman said a pair of lawsuits involving the census would be shifted to a new team of lawyers. Like the last one, it includes both political appointees and career officials who remain in their jobs regardless of which administration is in power.
The move is the latest sign that the Trump administration is renewing its legal fight to add the question after the Supreme Court dismissed the White House’s justification for its inclusion, saying it seemed “contrived.” The future of the crucial head count has been in flux as the administration first said it would seek new justifications, proposed a delay in the census and told courts it was dropping the query, before asserting it was redoubling efforts to get the question added.
“Since these cases began, the lawyers representing the United States in these cases have given countless hours to defending the Commerce Department and have consistently demonstrated the highest professionalism, integrity, and skill inside and outside the courtroom,” Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said. Attorney General William Barr, she added, “is confident that the new team will carry on in the same exemplary fashion as the cases progress.”
Again, the Democrats are going to go ballistic, so grab some popcorn. We’ll see what happens.
How about the WWII spy question: Who is Mickey Mouse’s girl friend?
This citizenship question really needs to be on the 2020 census.
It won't be perfect, but it should give us a much better idea of citizens / non-citizens numbers and therefore appropriate congressional apportionment (among other things).
bubububt...dumb people on FR say Barr is a deep state tool every damn day...how can this be?
If Barr says it, I BELIEVE IT.
the D’s dont care if we find out how many citizens we have.
the D’s don’t want anything that will reveal just how many millions of non-citizens they’ve managed to sneak in here
(especially the D core constituency, the illegal ones)
Barr seems to be doing all right.
Excellent. Keep up the good work.
BUMP!
Its like that joke, three Nazi’s walk into a BARR...
I don’t see many saying that lately...after teh Mueller report Barr shut up the critics...except those that are purposefully obtuse.
>>>bubububt...dumb people on FR say Barr is a deep state tool every damn day...how can this be?<<<
Because not all FReepers are FReepers. I call them FLeepers.
Without a citizenship question, the census is utterly meaningless. Completely useless. Just cancel it entirely.
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“So thankful AG Barr replaced Sessions.”
I admit (unlike others here who went full retard previously) that due to their Sunday “mass relationship’ with the Mueller’s, I thought he was going to be Sessions V2.
Barr has been as much of a pleasant surprise as Sessions was a supreme disappointment.
Here’s the real life result of doing this: Sactuary cities especially, but other cities who don’t turn in illegals will be hit the hardest. They still need money to take care of them, but they won’t be getting anymore from the government if they can’t count them. If this question is on, illegals won’t be filling them out. This is a HUGE problem for cities and counties. It’s brilliant of our President.
Because of the historical precedents, I think Congressional apportionment will remain based on total head count and not citizenship.
Thought I think it should be based on citizenship. But I read, it would take an act of congress to change the apportionment.
Well said...It’ll be a delight too see the RATs holler and scream over the question being on the census, really looking forward to it.
MAGA!
So frickin true!!
It tells me that the left does not want a border, a Constitution, or the Flag that represents our nation, our history and our values....with Socialism nothing is free and there is little actual Freedom or Liberty. The Left really lives in a haze of.......
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