Linda Greenhouse NYT column: But if the plaintiff states are going to lose, it seems to me that it matters greatly how they lose. What was depressing and even scary about the April 23 argument was the disingenuous lengths to which the … Continue reading
Category Archives: census litigation
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on the census litigation. … Continue reading
Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar column: Two years ago, at his confirmation hearings, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said that what happens abroad should not influence American judges in constitutional cases.“We have our own tradition and our own history,” he said, “and I … Continue reading
Here at Oyez. … Continue reading
WaPo oped. … Continue reading
Eric Muller in Slate. … Continue reading
WaPo: The Justice Department said Wednesday that it will not comply with a congressional subpoena for a Trump administration official to testify in a House panel’s investigation of the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.In a letter … Continue reading
Cristian Farias in the NYT: For all his talk about judges not being political actors beholden to a president, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and his conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court may hand President Trump one of the biggest political victories of … Continue reading
WaPo column: Our nation faces a constitutional conflagration, and President Trump is not the only actor willing to put personal and partisan interests above the preservation of our system of self-rule.Five conservative justices on the Supreme Court signaled clearly on … Continue reading
David Gans for Slate. … Continue reading
Mark Joseph Stern: What’s startling about Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch’s questions in particular is that they seem to betray fundamental principles of the court’s conservative bloc. Gorsuch has disclaimed reliance on international law, proclaiming: “We have our own tradition and our own … Continue reading
Howard’s got it. … Continue reading
Sasha Samberg Champion: It's just perfect that SG–having gotten Supreme Court to block plaintiffs in Census case from deposing Secy Ross as to his intent, as purportedly not relevant–relies heavily on the lack of evidence as to Secretary Ross's intent. … Continue reading
It is here. … Continue reading
Reuters with an early report from today’s oral argument: During an extended, 80-minute argument session, the court’s liberal justices voiced skepticism over the need for the question to enforce a federal voting rights law – the administration’s stated justification.Lower courts … Continue reading
Joan Biskupic for CNN. … Continue reading
Mark Sherman for the AP. … Continue reading
Matt Barreto ,Chris Warshaw ,Matthew A. Baum ,Bryce J. Dietrich ,Rebecca Goldstein and Maya Sen in the Monkey Cage: The Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census reaches the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Thus far, … Continue reading
Amanda Frost at SCOTUSBlog: On its face, Department of Commerce v. New York asks whether the government may add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 decennial census. But as Professor Justin Levitt explains in a forthcoming essay, if the government wins, … Continue reading
I really understood what Will was saying in this column until the last paragraph, which doesn’t seem to follow. … Continue reading
CNN reports. … Continue reading
Reuters: An array of U.S. companies have told the Trump administration that a citizenship question on the 2020 Census would harm business if it leads to an undercount of immigrants, undermining the data they use to place stores, plan inventory … Continue reading
““The Titanic was launched with less hubris and more preparation.” Justin Levitt, in his forthcoming Columbia Law Review article, Citizenship and the Census, as quoted in Adam Liptak’s NYT Sidebar preview of the upcoming oral argument in the census citizenship … Continue reading
“It was like ‘Jeopardy,’” said Dale Ho, director of voting rights at the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the lawyers who will argue the case in the Supreme Court. “They had the answer. They needed the question.” USA Today, on the … Continue reading
ACS: On April 23rd, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Department of Commerce v. New York, a case that raises questions of administrative and constitutional law, and that has the potential to affect the accuracy of the 2020 Census, … Continue reading
You can find the opinion here (via Hansi Lo Wang). These issues are already before the Supreme Court in the New York census case. … Continue reading
Posts being collected here. … Continue reading
David Gans blogs. … Continue reading
Politico: President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at Democrats for fighting his administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a controversial move set to undergo legal scrutiny by the Supreme Court in the coming months.“Can … Continue reading
Reuters: The U.S. Census Bureau has asked tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off “fake news” campaigns it fears could disrupt the upcoming 2020 count, according to Census officials and multiple sources briefed on the matter.The … Continue reading
WaPo editorial. … Continue reading
If the Supreme Court agreed, this would mean the the Enumerations Clause issue, which was not reached in the NY case but was decided in the CA case, would be decided in the NY case only. That would mean no … Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang: NEW: The Supreme Court has expanded the #CitizenshipQuestion case at #SCOTUS to consider whether including the question is unconstitutional, in addition to whether adding it violated administrative law?https://t.co/EA9sXoIlR1 pic.twitter.com/fKXv9CoUnj— Hansi Lo Wang (@hansilowang) March 15, 2019 As … Continue reading
15. JUST IN: DOJ official who wrote #CitizenshipQuestion request, John Gore, admitted a fmr "Transition Team official provided him an initial draft of a letter" from DOJ asking for the citizenship question to be added, according to @RepCummings statement https://t.co/pS5vsGzUde … Continue reading