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19 Jul 2019, 3:00 am
House voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt of Congress for their refusal to turn over key documents related to the Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. [read post]
18 Jul 2019, 8:10 am
The House of Representatives voted to hold Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General William Bar in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to provide documents related to the Trump administration’s attempt to introduce a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the New York Times reports. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 1:28 pm
” Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the inclusion of the question in March of last year, sparking a litany of federal lawsuits from immigrant and minority rights groups, and US states and cities. [read post]
Huawei Remains on the BIS Entity List but Senior Officials Suggest Export Licenses May Be Considered
16 Jul 2019, 2:30 pm
On July 9, 2019, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross indicated that Huawei will remain on the Entity List with the same export licensing requirements. [read post]
14 Jul 2019, 9:05 pm
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross initially stating that the 2020 census would move forward without the citizenship question, President Donald Trump tweeted two days later that the census would include a question about citizenship status. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 9:05 pm
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that the U.S. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 5:50 pm
” And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “Trump Has Backed Down On Adding A Citizenship Question To The 2020 Census; Trump said he would direct federal agencies to provide citizenship data to the Commerce Department — a plan Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had rejected in favor of adding the question. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 3:56 pm
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross declared last year that he had decided to include the citizenship question after receiving a request from the Department of Justice, which he said wanted the data to better enforce federal voting rights laws. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
And there is substantial reason to think that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross sought to add the citizenship question to the census for the politically partisan purpose of disadvantaging Democratic constituencies.Accordingly, last month the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, rejected the pretextual explanation for the question given by the Trump administration. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 5:30 am
” On the left, some saw a more Machiavellian Roberts maneuver, temporarily pausing his Court’s relentless rightward march, merely to “modulat[e] public uproar,” while teaching his White House and congressional allies that, while he is “on their side,” they must “lie better next time” than Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ ham-handed ploy to weaponize the census.To be sure, the nation’s polarized state, and in particular the… [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
In an opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court held that even if Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’s decision to add a citizenship question to the census was not arbitrary or capricious under § 706(2)(A) of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), it nonetheless “must be set aside because it rested on a pretextual basis, which the government conceded below would warrant a remand to the agency. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 11:54 am
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross argued that such a question would aid enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 4:36 am
Department head, Wilbur Ross tried to claim the question was included to help enforce the Voting RightsAct. [read post]
7 Jul 2019, 7:48 pm
On Thursday, June 27, the Supreme Court held that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's March 2018 order, directing the Census Bureau to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census questionnaire, "rested on a pretextual basis," i.e., that it "cannot be adequately explained in terms" of the "sole stated reason" Ross offered--a purported request by the Department of Justice "for improved citizenship data to better enforce [Section 2 of… [read post]
5 Jul 2019, 9:23 pm
As the Bureau told Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross when he pressed for the citizenship question in the first place, if you want accurate CVAP data, instead of adding the question to the Census you should rely on other data sources not subject to this problem.All this may sound a little head-spinning: if the Bureau knew all this from the beginning (and they did), then why was Real Reason 2 any kind of reason for adding a citizenship question to the Census in the first place? [read post]
5 Jul 2019, 12:51 pm
He acknowledged that there is “some degree of logic” to the government’s argument that fact-finding should be put on hold until Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross reaches a “new” decision about the citizenship question, but he ultimately rejected the government’s plea based on what he described as the “unique circumstances of this case. [read post]
4 Jul 2019, 4:30 am
Signed, founding white fathers:Donald J Trump; Mike Pence; Mitch McConnell; WIlbur Ross; Betsy something or other who runs the education thingy; Jared Kushner. [read post]
4 Jul 2019, 4:01 am
His argument relies on the mandatory “shall” even though his excuse is no less full of, ahem, falseness than Wilbur Ross’. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 3:18 pm
President Trump had been frustrated with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for mishandling the White House’s effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, according to an administration official, and [tweeted] on Wednesday... 'The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE!... [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 1:43 pm
Happy 'About-To-Be-Independence Day' to The Slipper King. [read post]
