“Discussion: DOJ Asks SCOTUS To Delay Next Week’s Census Citizenship Trial”
Maybe this is how it feels when your’e drowning.
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saves a lot of paper too. Good for the environment.
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Conservatism. Bias to the elite.
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Remember when McCain wanted to suspend the election for a time when he thought he was needed to figure out the financial crisis of the time? He saw that freight train coming.
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O/T Don’t know if anyone else saw this or even knew about the US government detaining a US Citizen for over a year without a charge. This is one of the stories that could have ended badly if not for the ACLU and the media.
I wonder with the military being sent to the southern border if any US citizens will be in danger?
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Welp…
Can’t tell if ya got an ace in your hand …
ya don’t try and draw to it —
The DOJ is hoping to delay long enough so that they can argue that the government is in jeopardy of failing to fulfill the constitutional requirement for a census. Look for a 5-4 SCOTUS decision allowing the census to go to press with the question, but establishing no precedent due to the “unique situation.”
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Does this mean SCOTUS is putting on the same blinders the FBI wore with Kavanaugh, and has decided not to acknowledge the Ross-Bannon-Kobach connection? I’m not a lawyer but it looks like this “administrative record” thing means they can’t consider acknowledged evidence elsewhere. Like this, for Pete’s sake:
Oct 18, 2018–NEW YORK (AP) — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he now remembers speaking with former senior White House adviser Steve Bannon in spring 2017 about adding a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census.
Government lawyers made the revelation in a Manhattan federal court document Thursday…
The Justice Department is now asking the Supreme Curt to delay the trial so it can “resolve the question whether the district court must confine its review of the Secretary’s to the administrative record.”
Kavanope - " You can only ask questions about the current situation ( and nothing about what might have happened back then ) .
The Supremes are in a little bit of a cleft stick here, because they desperately want to overturn the doctrine that says you should give deference to administrative decisions. So if they bail out Ross whatever the gang says will be quoted back to them in short order.
Can we just start deciding things by a coin flip? I mean, it really does give everybody an even shot at winning.
Takes out all of the bias and reduces the courts hearing schedule by almost 100%.