Ronald Brownstein for CNN: But on cases affecting the core electoral interests of the two parties — like the decision impending this week on whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census — Roberts… Continue reading

Read it here.

From today’s order: This Court previously concluded that the Secretary’s articulated reason for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census—to improve Voting Rights Act (VRA) enforcement— was a pretext. ECF No. 154 at 108. However, the Court held that… Continue reading

Hansi Lo Wang: NEW: The 4th Circuit has set June 24 as the deadline for Trump admin to respond to request by @MALDEF @AAAJ_AAJC to send #CitizenshipQuestion lawsuits in Maryland back to the trial court, where U.S. District Judge George… Continue reading

Plaintiffs have filed this unusual motion in the Supreme Court asking for the Court to send the case back to the district court to engage in factfinding over whether government officials lied about why Secretary Ross decided to include the… Continue reading

From Dale Ho, who argued the census case for plaintiffs in the Supreme Court: https://twitter.com/dale_e_ho/status/1138639775005585408

From the speech: “Speculators about the outcome note that last year, in Trump v. Hawaii, the Court upheld the so-called “travel ban,” in an opinion granting great deference to the Executive. Respondents in the census case have argued that a… Continue reading

WaPo deep dive.

Linda Greenhouse in the NYT: What changed my mind about writing about this issue again was the administration’s response to the request by the plaintiffs, a coalition of immigrant rights groups, to Judge Furman for “sanctions or other appropriate relief”… Continue reading