“A Partisan Grab, in Six Steps Will the Supreme Court act as a Republican branch?”
David Leonhardt for NYT Opinion.
Category Archives: census litigation
How Appealing Rounds Up Census Litigation Developments
Here.
I Talked About the Census Case and the New Revelations with Hansi Lo Wang and Dale Ho on KQED Forum
You can listen here.
“Counting Change: Ensuring an Inclusive Census for Communities of Color”
Janai Nelson has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Columbia Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The constitutionally-mandated decennial enumeration of the U.S. population is indispensable to the equitable distribution of political and economic resources. As we approach the 2020… Continue reading
“New Memo Reveals the Census Question Was Added to Boost White Voting Power; Why it won’t matter to the Supreme Court’s conservatives.”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
If we had a fair Supreme Court not driven by partisanship in its most political cases, Thursday’s blockbuster revelation in the census case would lead the court to unanimously rule in … Continue reading
Today’s Must-Read: Linda Greenhouse: “The Supreme Court, the Census Case and the Truth: Will the justices be the administration’s enablers or form a firewall against its lies?”
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… Continue reading
“Will the Supreme Court Go Nativist?”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on the census litigation.
“Conservatives, Often Wary of Foreign Law, Embrace It in Census Case”
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… Continue reading
Listen to the Oral Argument Audio in Census Citizenship Case at the Supreme Court
Here at Oyez.
“Eric Holder: The Supreme Court can’t allow Trump to weaponize the census”
“The Roberts Court Is Considering the Legal Reasoning of Jim Crow to Uphold a Rigged Census”
“Justice Department refuses to comply with congressional subpoena for testimony on citizenship question and 2020 Census”
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… Continue reading
“This Could Be One of Trump’s Biggest Political Victories”
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… Continue reading
E.J. Dionne: “Will Trump and the Supreme Court tear our democracy apart?”
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… Continue reading