“It’s still a mystery exactly why Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross wanted a citizenship question added to the 2020 census…”
Narrator: “It’s not a mystery.”
Some time back Ross made headlines as the subject of criminal inquiry. Embezzling as I understood it. What happened to that?
He apparently headed the Bank of Cypus at a time that bank was alleged to be funneling laundered Russian money to Deutsche Bank. What happened to that line of inquiry?
How do these things simply disappear?
Beat me to it. Very first line of the article is a falsehood.
Easy. Torture the Law.
If we didn’t have a thoroughly corrupt attorney general, this kind of thing would merit a criminal referral.
Ms. Sneed seems to be using the AP Guide to Mendacity in Reporting.
Lies. Lies. Lies.
What worries me is after 3 or so lower courts ruled against adding this question and none ruled to add it, the Supreme Court takes it up anyhow.
Ross didn’t hold back his frustration that, only two months into his tenure, getting citizenship on the census hadn’t been done yet. The issue “must” get resolved by the end of April, he said in one email via an aide. In May, he complained in an email that he was “mystified” as to why “nothing” had been done to carry out his “months old request” to include the citizenship question on the census.
This right here is why, when CEO types get into politics, they usually suck at the job. They’re accustomed to snapping their fingers, giving a command, and having an entire company full of underlings jump to do their bidding. Now, if not sooner. The CEO is responsible to the board of directors (usually captive) and the shareholders (ditto), in other words to nobody, as long as the results are good (enough).
The political process, by design, does not work that way. Politics is all about the process of balancing competing demands and interests. One person’s command is not the final word. The end result is almost always a compromise, and compromises take time. Ensuring the laws are followed takes time. Gathering input from various concerned parties takes time.
Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen. (Politics is the art of the possible.)
- Otto von Bismarck
Taking any bets that the Supreme court will say that the executive can do whatever they want, and that that the executive can’t actually lie about something you have an absolute right to do?
What’s sad is that it’s just proof that Republicans are trapped in the bubble Rush Limbaugh farted from his Oxy brain thirty years ago. They’re convinced that any bureaucrat can invent any regulation and it’s legally binding immediately, which is how liberals push our evil agenda in secret.
But when real bureaucrats explain the bureaucratic process for getting anything done, they think it’s a trick because underlings always obey unethical and illegal orders in the business world. It’s the same with Trump. He doesn’t think he’s grabbing power. He honestly thought Obama had dictator powers and Eric Holder was his personal lawyer using the DOJ to save Crooked Hillary because that’s what Fox News says.
That’s why the only nice thing Republicans can get are taxcuts, because that’s the only part of their agenda that’s based in the real world. Every other battle is tilting at evil liberal windmills invented by lunatics and they don’t understand why this isn’t working better.
Exactly!
And judges.
Because “judicial activism” is very much a real-world thing, but actual examples seem to be mostly on the right-wing side. Looking at you, Judge O’Connor.
The real mystery is why Wilbur Ross is leading the charge. This really seems to be his issue.
It’s going to be interesting to find out how the five “strict constructionists” move from counting “persons” to counting citizens.
It’s also going to be interesting to see how they reconcile wilful credulity in this case with their dismantling of the Chevron doctrine, i.e. their decisions in other cases that courts can take issue with the detailed reasoning of any administrative act they dislike even a little.
Next time a Republican tells you they’re against “big government”, laugh.
They’re joking.
Swamped by the constant stream of new outrages from the White House.
And, it’s no accident.
All going according to plan…
Miller an Bannon at work here.