ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue for another month through the end of October, saying a shortened schedule likely would produce inaccurate results.
Unfair ruling made by an Obama Judge… tweet coming to you shortly
Well, that’s something at least.
How much of the census taking infrastructure has already been dismantled?
This decision will be appealed into next year and after that the results will be contested, so I’m not sure we’ll know anything for months or even years.
So is the census constitutionally written to be done in a year ending in zero or can the next administration or session of Congress request a new one to be done properly?
I’m sure Despot Donnie will be tweeting soon…hair-on-fire. Ballz out. Activist Judges. Sic 'em Billy…
A win lost ruling.
All the constitution says on the census:
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.
Its not much and says nothing on how the census should operate (except being every 10 years). Like much in the Constitution, it wasn’t written to handle our modern situation where a manifestly unfit person is elected President and is protected from having his abuses stopped by Congress via co-conspirators in the House and Senate.
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I did have a census taker come by a few weeks ago,very interesting reason why. She had a census ID in plain sight and the first words out of my mouth was,I did my census on line,she acknowledged that but she was here to get info on a vacant house across the street from me.House had a fire a few months earlier and had no one living there ,but they had that address and had to follow up.
As I recall, @txlawyer may be having one of our periodic disagreements about this, but I believe an appellate court is very likely to say “within ten years” means “before the end of a zero year” and reinstate the 12/31 deadline. But I think it is highly unlikely that they’ll uphold the arbitrary attempt to cut it off early or cut it shorter than that. Also unlikely the PI will be stayed pending appeal as there is no articulable harm to the government and irreparable harm if denied.
Unless there are two Trumpers, two Bush II’s, or a Trumper and a Bush II on the panel, of course.
Juicy tidbits from the story:
To deflect an allegation of defamation, the network was forced to claim that one of its highest-profile personalities can’t reasonably be expected to consistently provide accurate information to viewers.
Carlson said:
Remember the facts of the story. These are undisputed. Two women approached Donald Trump and threatened to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesn’t give them money. Now, that sounds like a classic case of extortion.
The judge found:
This “general tenor” of the show should then inform a viewer that he is not “stating actual facts” about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in “exaggeration” and “non-literal commentary.” … . Fox persuasively argues … that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer “arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism” about the statements he makes.
There is ample historical evidence for Congress ignoring a decennial census. There is no historical evidence that a decennial census needs to be completed in a year ending in 0. If the next Congress rejects this half-assed census and passes legislation to have it continued until completion, it will be up to Justice Handmaid’s Tale to declare it false and tricksy.
Is the “subsequent Term of ten Years” determined with reference to the first meeting of the Congress of the United States (March 1789 to March 1791), which is a two year window, or with reference to the completion of the first census? Where is Justice original intent when you need him.
It’s a bullshit ruling from a tRump appointed judge. It protects FOX by allowing them the fig-leaf explanation of ‘It was a joke’ - so common to this maladministration. A ‘reasonable’ viewer DOESN’T WATCH FOX NEWS. Fox news viewers DRINK THE FLAVORAID and believe his shit
Could be! Never been tested. In light of the apparent ambiguity, the courts should, in the ordinary course of not being hyper-partisan GOP warriors, defer to Congress’s take on things.
Koh’s preliminary injunction suspends that end-of-the-year deadline, too.
…ok, until when? Because if it’s not until at least Jan. 22nd then it should be.
I filled out the census months ago on line, but I did have a census taker come by my house in order to get the data on the residents of a condo which they’d just moved from and had no new address. They were friends with two young children as well as neighbors so I was able to give him quite a lot of info though I was uncertain about exact ages, but I was glad to do my part.
Speaking of Fox and Tucker,
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—As Donald J. Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power in January, former President Barack Obama suggested that cancelling the White House’s cable-TV account could induce the President to leave.
“This is a man who enjoys watching television,” Obama told reporters. “What if, on Inauguration Day, he picks up the remote and nothing comes on?”
“This seems like the most peaceful way to get him to go,” Obama said.
Obama also said that, in order to avoid a constitutional crisis, the White House’s supply of Diet Coke could also be cut off, but added, “I don’t think it will come to that.”
“Once it dawns on him that there’s no cable, his days will stretch out before him in a vista of emptiness,” Obama said. “No ‘Fox & Friends.’ No Tucker Carlson. And no Shark Week.”
“He’ll be on the next helicopter out,” Obama predicted.
I already seen this movie. It will be immediately appealed and the clock will run out.
I’d have liked this comment regardless, but “Justice Handmaid’s Tale to declare it false and tricksy” sealed the deal.
I will never refer to her by any other name. And I don’t know why the Gollum reference works, but it sure feels right.