I think this decision by the Supreme Court is ridiculous, and I am in good company with Justice Clarence Thomas. It doesn’t mean that the question is dead – yet. As is mentioned in the video, this is a process question, and has nothing to do with the Constitutionality of the question itself. John Roberts, as he frequently is, is the fink in this decision.
In dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas said the majority had done something extraordinary. “For the first time ever,” he wrote, “the court invalidates an agency action solely because it questions the sincerity of the agency’s otherwise adequate rationale.”
Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh joined Justice Thomas’s partial dissent.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. filed his own dissent:
“To put the point bluntly, the federal judiciary has no authority to stick its nose into the question whether it is good policy to include a citizenship question on the census or whether the reasons given by Secretary Ross for that decision were his only reasons or his real reasons.”
President Trump is requesting that the census be postponed for an unspecified period to allow the judicial process to play out. What do you think?
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Here’s the real question: If the citizenship question is included what’s to guarantee illegals will answer it legally?
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What’s to guarantee that anybody answers anything legally/truthfully?
That’s another issue entirely.
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Exactly. In the last census in 2010 I worked as a canvasser before I quit and told them to pound sand. THE most important thing was to get the exact GPS reading on the front porch of every home in the area we were assigned. There were other questions but the device we were given gave us the ability to capture and store the exact GPS reading of the front door of every building and apartment we went to. For some reason THAT was the main thing the Census folks wanted, honesty on you residence’s location, not so much anything else.
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I answer in a manner that I beleive best protects me from the Government. Truth is irrelevant in the US. We have learned that and seen it repeatedly demonstrated by EVERY action taken by Democrats in the past 10 years. Cover your ass in any way you can. If the Democrats ever get back in power, you will need as much anonymity as you can create.
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In the 1800’s Roberts would be dangling already. Just sayin…
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What happened to the Court’s Precious – stare decisis? Stare decisis overrules everything, according to Court liberals, and the Court has ruled several times not to change an agency’s decision except for the most flagrant abuses of the Constitution, and sometimes not even then. Stare decisis is what they use to continue Roe v Wade.
Bunch of durn hypocrites.
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Too bad we can’t find out for sure what it is that is being held over Roberts’ head, so we can expose it. Then, they wouldn’t have anything to hold over his vote. And, I really believe that is what is going on.
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I think there was speculation that it might be about irregularities with adoption of his child/children.
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That is what I heard, too. But, it might need to come out mainstream to save the country.
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SCOTUS Loses Its Census over Citizenship
By Daniel John Sobieski – June 28, 2019
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts may go down in judicial history as the worst Republican SCOTUS pick ever. The man who found ObamaCare constitutional by inventing the fiction that it was a tax has joined the court’s four liberals to block a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, not because it is unconstitutional, but rather because he didn’t like the Trump administration’s reasons for asking for it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/scotus_loses_its_census_over_citizenship.html
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