She can't meet her reward soon enough.
Posted on 10/05/2018 12:23:56 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday rejected a request from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to temporarily block an order requiring Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and another official to sit for a deposition in lawsuits challenging their decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
DOJ has also asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to quash Ross’s deposition. Ginsburg is letting that request, which is scheduled to be reviewed on Oct. 9, play out first.
“The application is denied without prejudice, provided that the Court of Appeals will afford sufficient time for either party to seek relief in this court before the depositions in question are taken,” the court’s public information office said.
But in his request to Ginsburg earlier this week, Solicitor General Noel Francisco said there will be little or no time for the parties and the Supreme Court to act before Ross’s Oct. 11 deposition if the Second Circuit denies their request.
The Second Circuit has already denied a request to keep John Gore, the acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, from having to be deposed.
The ruling DOJ is appealing came from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in two lawsuit suits that have been challenging the citizenship question.
The lawsuits allege that a citizenship question on the census would deter immigrants from participating, consequently decreasing federal funding to historically Democratic states.
Dale Ho, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the immigrants' rights groups challenging the rule, trolled the administration on Twitter after Ginsburg’s decision was announced.
“Not tired of winning yet,” he tweeted.
The Department of Justice declined to comment.
I sure hope her health is improving, bless her heart. We wouldn’t want the president to have to fill another vacancy right after this one.
Ruth Bader Ginburg moves her lips as another person denies DOJ request to block Ross Deposition in 2020 Census case.
Then collapses, her head bouncing on the desk...
She can't meet her reward soon enough.
Where is the 25th Amendment for Supreme Court Justices?
The senile, asleep at the switch, old bitty should have retired years ago!
Good question. Is another Deep State resistor in the Justice Department at work here?
Dear Ruth,
You need to eat lots of red meat every day. And quit exercising! God gives us only so many heart beats, exercise will shorten your life.
Hope you can live until Kamala Harris is elected president in 2020 or 2024.
How does a Associate Justice of SCOTUS get to rule individually on a request from the Department of Justice? I don’t ever recall hearing this authority before.
I read it twice...I don’t know who Ross is or what this is about.
The GOP needs to file lawsuits like this against the Dem Administrations. Fight fire with fire.
I guess self-recusal of the Trump-hating Ginzberg is not in the cards.
Again, the satanic Left plays by their own rules. And Congress lets the Left get away with it.
To wit - the citizenship question used to be in the census and Obama took itnout. Trump put it back but now that’s considered unconstitutional and they want to interrogate the justice department that said it was ok to put it back in as they take the case to court.
Remember the Chicago Cubs player Ernie Banks who said before a doubleheader, “What a great day for baseball. Let’s play two!”?
If RBG creates a vacancy Trump could say tomorrow: “What a great day to MAGA. Let’s nominate and confirm two!”
Stretcher would have to be ready for Pelosi,Schumer,Waters,and Feinstein just in case.
At first glance I thought the heading said “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Died”. LOL!!!
You’re certainly feeling frisky, again, DV. Very good to see!
Up to the second circuit now. I can’t wait for this old bat to die so we can replace her with Amy Comey Barrett.
Is this about asking about one’s citizenship status?
I thought it was just me. I don’t quite understand what’s being stated here. Whenever the statement contains phrases like; “Denies, request to block”, it gets a confusing.
That’s often how a bad tax bill will get through, by placing one negative verb right next to the other, resulting in the opposite meaning.
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