Posted on 07/07/2019 7:56:17 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Impeach Roberts.
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Let’s hope this is the A Team.
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I’m sure Barr is putting COMPETENT lawyers on it now. More importantly, he’s getting rid of the incompetent and/or FOOT DRAGGING SABOTEURS who were handling it previously.
“I’m sure Barr is putting COMPETENT lawyers on it now.”
I wish I had your confidence.
Just print it with the question and to hell with the judges.
The Commerce Department, including the Secretary of Commerce, was more than happy to just roll over and let this Obama appointed district judge carry the water for the Democrat Party.
What did the Supreme Court say back in 2010 when Obama seized control of the Census from the Congress and removed the citizenship question from the Census? The Supreme Court was silent, because no one challenged what the Obama Administration did. They just rolled over.
This time around the District Judge wrote a 300 page opinion arguing that asking that question was unconstitutional and that the Secretary of Commerce did not have the authority to decide what questions would be on the Census. In his view, every Democrat wackadoodle in the country has a personal veto over what goes into the Census form. The Supreme Court actually said that this was nonsense and that the question is constitutional and that the Secretary of Commerce does have the authority to decide what questions go into the Census.
So, why aren’t the forms being printed with the questions? Because this judge, a Democrat partisan, said that he didn’t like the Government’s rationale for putting the question back into it, citing something called the Administrative Procedures Act (APA).
The bozos that wanted to roll over on this one, and who can’t seem to come up with a good reason to ask the citizenship question are the same ones who wrote the original unsatisfactory rationale.
The new gang of lawyers could begin with the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution that specified that any State that deprived an American citizen of his right to vote would have their Congressional representation reduced by the proportion of citizens who were deprived of their rights. To do this, the Government must know how many citizens are located in every State. This represents a Constitutional requirement for the question. That position will be challenged, but it is a stronger position than the view of this Judge and the Democrats that they don’t like the citizenship question.
If this Judge denies the Governments request, The Judiciary will be interfering with the Census process, that belongs to the Executive Branch and the administrative process foul can be argued ad infinitum over the next ten years
“President Trump also announced that he is considering an executive order to include the question.”
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It sounds like that is a possibility.
I am of the opinion that if an EO can create “DACA” then an EO can add a question to the census.
I wish I had your confidence.
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The former DOJ lawyers handling it were from the meek/compliant Sessions era and were no doubt Deep State saboteurs, IMHO. Barr won’t put up with that crap.
correct all the argument they need is the 14th amendment.
One thing I like about Trump is his reticence to use EO’s which often seem extra-constitutional to me.
DACA is a memo, not an executive order.
The Swamp & its Media just like to pretend that it's "law".
Okay, so they are printing the forms WITHOUT the question? Then why bother with the court? Sure, a new team of lawyers to replace the losers, but still, what is the point?
Trump has been sending Deep State career lawyers into court to defend his policies since January 2017.
If even one of those lawyers has made a passionate or compelling argument in defense of a Trump policy, I have not read about it.
After Trump won his Supreme Court case about blocking refugees from terrorist Muslim countries, did Trump even implement that policy?
Once again, I have not read one word about that happening.
Now they know the faulty reasoning Roberts used...should be a slam dunk...
“IMHO. Barr won’t put up with that crap.”
Again ... I wish I had your confidence. Barr seemed to have come on strong, with guns a-blazin’, but he still has Wray at the FBI, and none of the 50+ scofflaws and/or outright criminals are being dealt with.
It’s worse than that.
The composition of the census is a ministerial function. Thousands of decisions are made every day by those in positions of authority, both in the Executive Branch and in the Legislature.
It has never been the law (up until now) that the subjective feelings or state of mind of the responsible person making a decision could, by itself, make that decision which would otherwise be proper, invalid.
Does this mean, for example, that a law restricting the EPA that passed by two votes would be deemed to have not passed because four Members of Congress who voted for it were “climate deniers”?
The citizenship question was on multiple census questionnaires, including the 2000 one.
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