Neat.
While a census undercount is a concern, the real issue is the obvious attempt to make only eligible voters count toward representation.
This will disadvantage not just states with high immigrant populations, but also states with much younger populations.
This is engineered to disadvantage blue states again.
Apartheid government is the Republican goal, and will be brought to us by the shiny new SC justices that were a result of electoral collusion with a foriegn power.
Seems we are going to see just how much John Robert’s cares about the legitimacy of the court
Why is SCOTUS playing along with DOJ’s aggressive tactics
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say 1) Neil Gorsuch; 2) Brett Kavanaugh
Critics of the Justice Department’s strategy say that it undermines not just the government’s legitimacy, but the legitimacy of the entire judicial system.
Feature not a bug, the Banana Republicans are consolidating power, before it slips away entirely through their greedy fingers.
They need to get this done before they lose their majority. They’re in a hurry and we are getting exactly what was promised: a totally complicit and friendly court.
Once again, if the Republicans can’t win over voters, they’ll go to any length to game the system to their advantage. Northeastern and more urban states will undoubtedly lose house seats and therefore Electoral votes if there is an undercount of residents. Large Blue states that now give more to the federal govt than they get back will find that equation even more lopsided.
The Kavanaugh Court is a far cry from the Supreme Court of yesteryear.
The administration’s game is to run out the clock. If the Supreme Court puts the District Court judgment on hold until it rules on the evidence motion, probably in June 2019, the decision will not be rendered until after that date. Once rendered, the administration will seek review by the Supreme Court and a stay; if it gets that the final decision will not come until sometime in 2020 …. after the census is taken.
The justice department didn’t “force” them to do anything. Four justices thought this was a good idea. Gorsuch, Thomas, Kavanaugh, possibly Alito, maybe Roberts. All of them big fans of executive power.
What’s an originalist to do with this??:
“their respective Numbers, which shall be
determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.”
I can’t see how the founders intended to figure this without a full count. And they say Persons, not Citizens. Person seems to mean everyone, and this three-fifths crap went out the SCOTUS window
long ago. The constitutional scholars need to sharpen their pencils.
Why have district courts? Here is my plan. Have all cases sent immediately to the Supreme Court who will decide based upon what Fox and Friends advises. As the Founders intended.
Mitch Effing McConnell.
Thomas, Kavanaugh, possibly Alito, maybe Roberts. All of them big fans of executive power.
Footnote: As long as the President’s name is followed by “R.”
What “the Court has in mind” is finding anyway they can to get this done for the GOP. After the mid terms showed the GOP aint what it thought it was all it’s players, the Court being one, got serious about entrenchment. Roberts would love to see this in front of him so he can give the citizenship question a green light. It will tilt census results in a direction favoring the GOP and that, not Justice, is his bag. That’s why the outrageous Citizens United thing is with us.
From the get go the citizen question was about the same thing voter fraud, gerrymandering and photo ID are about. Keeping the GOP in power when only a minority support them.
Kavanagh’s appointment is quite possibly the best thing to happen in decades for the health of the Supreme Court.
The place has been a total farce, legal decision-wise, since Bush v. Gore.
And now this just makes things complete and out in the open, that they are an unelected political branch.
Maybe now the nation can finally get some energy behind much - needed reforms to eliminate the lifetime appointments and other issues (like clarification of the role and responsibility of the Senate)
“The move shocked observers” who apparently have been comatose for the last 18 months.
There is John Roberts and his background as a very right wing conservative with several past ties to highly racist organizations. Roberts is the most extreme judge in the court’s history…combining him and his right wing majority on the bench with trump is the single greatest threat to our Democracy since Hitler.
What about all those states with private prisons?
Can someone help the non-lawyer out here. When the reporting says “the Justice Department” am I to assume this is coming from acting AG Whitaker? The guy who wasn’t confirmed by the Senate?