Trump Admin rebuffed in Federal Court.........again

[alexa]

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
In the first major ruling on the controversial question, U.S. District Judge Furman of New York’s Southern District court ordered the administration to stop its plans to add the question to the survey “without curing the legal defects” identified in his opinion.
“This ruling is a forceful rebuke of the Trump administration’s attempt to weaponize the census for an attack on immigrant communities,” said Dale Ho, an attorney for the ACLU, which was a plaintiff in the case.
The Trump administration had tried several times to stop the case from going forward, including requests to the Supreme Court; the adminstration is likely to appeal Furman’s decision in the high court.
Plaintiffs in the trial include 18 states and several cities and jurisdictions, along with civil rights groups. It is one of three trial that arose from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s March decision to add the question.
Opponents of the question say it will reduce response rates in immigrant communities and make the constitutionally mandated decennial survey more costly and less accurate. The government had said the question was necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.b4e5cf495e95

This is the question SecCommerce Wilbur Ross lied about repeatedly, stating that the Justice Dept had requested it, when in fact it was Ross who spearheaded the idea.

[Peter1469]

Most of the questions on the census are objectionable. All they need to know is how many people live at the address.

[MisterVeritis]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.b4e5cf495e95

This is the question SecCommerce Wilbur Ross lied about repeatedly, stating that the Justice Dept had requested it, when in fact it was Ross who spearheaded the idea.

It is a good question. It needs to be asked.

We need an amendment to say illegal aliens will be counted but will have no impact on the distribution of representatives nor federal money.

[Marcus Aurelius]

Would even one illegal alien answer that question truthfully?

[stjames1_53]

Most of the questions on the census are objectionable. All they need to know is how many people live at the address.

That is all I answer in any census. I've never been called upon to provide more than that

[stjames1_53]

Would even one illegal alien answer that question truthfully?

......if they answer at all

[Peter1469]

That is all I answer in any census. I've never been called upon to provide more than that

Answer: make me.

[stjames1_53]

Answer: make me.

and they've never come knocking on my door..............

[Cannons Front]

I generally just put the number of people in the household and under Race I put American

[MMC]

case likely headed to Supreme Court.....


Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco said, “We are disappointed and are still reviewing the ruling.” She added that the government is “legally entitled to include the question on the census.”


Democratic lawmakers have said they will seek to defund or otherwise block the question if it is not stopped by litigation.


Testing of Census 2020 questions has been completed, but after an outcry about the untested citizenship question, the Census Bureau said it plans to test the question this summer. That testing would come after forms are scheduled to be printed but could help the bureau anticipate and plan for the question’s effect on response rates.


The administration is expected to appeal Tuesday’s ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and up to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court already has scheduled a hearing on one aspect of the case, but it seems likely that the administration would ask the court to broaden that inquiry.


In October, the Supreme Court intervened to block the deposition of Ross but allowed other depositions and the trial to go forward.



The administration in its briefs has already told the court that adding the question was unremarkable. “With the exception of 1840, decennial censuses from 1820 to 1880 asked for citizenship or birthplace in some form, and decennial censuses from 1890 through 1950” also included the question, the administration said.


But the last time it was on the decennial form, in 1950, immigration was not the political hot button it is now. A citizenship question does exist on the American Community Survey, a questionnaire that goes out to much smaller subsets of the population......snip~ From the link.




SCOTUS slapped the leftness with a $#@!slap on trying to deposition Ross. The question use to be on the Census. SCOTUS will have to give the leftness another $#@!slap upside their domes to make them get Right.


I recommend SCOTUS use an Iron Gauntlet so that the Left don't ever forget, again.


Remember Democrats will always go deviate.