“The Census Case Will Define the Roberts Court”
David Gans for Slate.
Category Archives: census litigation
“The Supreme Court Is Poised to Shred Its Credibility to Let Trump Rig the Census”
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… Continue reading
Roundup of Stories on the Census Citizenship Case
Howard’s got it.
The Solicitor General’s Chutzpah in the Census Oral Argument
Sasha Samberg Champion:
https://twitter.com/ssamcham/status/1120754053573685250
Read the Transcript in Today’s Supreme Court Argument on the Citizenship Question on the Census
It is here.
“Supreme Court conservatives sympathetic toward Trump census citizenship query”
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
“John Roberts faces another test with census case”
Joan Biskupic for CNN.
“Accuracy at core of Supreme Court case over census question”
Mark Sherman for the AP.
“New research shows just how badly a citizenship question would hurt the 2020 Census”
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
“Academic highlight: Levitt on the collateral consequences of Department of Commerce v. New York”
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,… Continue reading
George Will Column Gives Many Reasons Why Decision to Include Citizenship Question on Census Was Pretextual, But Concludes Supreme Court May Allow It Anyway
I really understood what Will was saying in this column until the last paragraph, which doesn’t seem to follow.
“John Roberts rejects requests for same-day audio of census citizenship arguments”
“Companies warn Trump: Census citizenship question could be costly”
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
Quote of the Day
““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… Continue reading