A second panel of federal judges has ruled against the President Trump census policy that would seek to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count that determines congressional apportionment. The latest decision, handed down Thursday in a case brought in California, goes further than the previous ruling — which stemmed from a New York-based lawsuit — in that the new decision declares the policy both illegal and a violation of the Constitution.
So when Amy gets on the court and rubberstamps the malAdministrations/REPUG census plans it will become even clearer to those few that remain wantingly blind to the feature that is power come hell or high water that is The REPUG party.
This is a no brainer case. Will the 6-3 right wing Supreme Court majority agree on appeal? That is the question. If they don’t, it’s a green light (assuming Biden is president and has a Senate majority) to expand the membership by a minimum of 4 before further damage is done to our country.
This latest decision, however, said that the policy runs afoul of the Constitution’s Apportionment and Enumeration Clauses, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
This is going to force the Barrett Court to find that both Article I, §2 and the 14th Amendment are unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court will have the final word on whether Trump can implement that policy, which was announced in July. The justices will hear arguments in the New York case in late November, which should allow for a decision by early January, before inauguration.
Just in time to greenlight the practice for Trump, win or lose.
Well that is it then. Spanky will need to sign an executive order rendering that pesky constitution thingy null and void. Can’t have some ancient piece of paper telling Spanky what he can and can not do.
The GOP wants one thing and one thing alone at this point: permanent minority-rules white Christian hegemony established and maintained through a “managed democracy” that pretends to have free and open elections, but in which those elections produce dependable, predictable results they can CONTROL from their positions of power in order to perpetuate their minority-rule hegemony.
That’s it. They want us to operate 100% like Putin’s Russia.
It looks to me as if the Court is working to provide evidence that a SCOTUS is behaving in a blatantly partisan matter if they rule in favor of the abusive policy that this administration is supporting. I think we can plan on seeing more and more courts writing opinions that will demand that SCOTUS ignore established jurisprudence in order to reach the partisan decisions. This won’t slow them down, but it will make a difference in the public support for balancing the courts.
I don’t recall when filling out my census questionnaire any queries about my being an undocumented immigrant. If my memory is correct, how will the Census Bureau sift out undocumented immigrants from the final count?
This is all based on a fairly easy to understand founding principle of our country, “No taxation without representation.” Obviously, it’s too new-fangled for the current Republican Party.
I really don’t understand how they would do it. They were blocked by the court from asking about citizenship. Would they just not count any people whose last name ended in “ez”?
