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2 Jul 2019, 3:23 pm by Amy Howe
The “evidence,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, “tells a story that does not match the explanation that” Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross provided. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 10:58 am by Lyle Denniston
Despite that shift in stance, the Administration has argued in its Supreme Court filings that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross – who supervises the census – genuinely believed that the information was necessary for voting rights cases, and his belief should be sufficient. [read post]
  Just five days after the law has gone into effect, Wilbur Ross, the US Commerce Secretary, published an opinion piece in the Financial Times, that warns: “EU data privacy laws are likely to create barriers to trade. [read post]
The Census Bureau, under direction from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, sought to end the decennial census a month earlier than scheduled on September 30 instead of the original deadline of October 31. [read post]
29 Mar 2018, 9:30 pm by Sarah Madigan
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross reasoned that “the need for accurate citizenship data and the limited burden that the reinstatement of the citizenship question would impose outweigh fears about a potentially lower response rate. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 4:13 pm by Amy Howe
The dispute now before the court centers on a July 2020 memorandum by President Donald Trump that directs Wilbur Ross, the secretary of commerce, to include information in the state-by-state breakdown that would enable Trump to exclude people who are in the country illegally from the apportionment calculation. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 8:52 am by Gene Quinn
 Given the role Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross now plays on trade issues, and given the recent news of President Trump ratcheting up pressure on China for trade violations including patents, Davidson’s USTR background should keep him involved in this front-line issue. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 3:57 pm by Amy Howe
The challengers asked the justices to either uphold the district court’s ruling barring the government from using the citizenship question or send the case back to the district court for more factfinding –specifically, about whether officials in the Department of Commerce, including Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, shared Hofeller’s motives for adding the question. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 5:50 pm by Howard Bashman
” 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]
16 Aug 2017, 8:52 am by Gene Quinn
 Given the role Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross now plays on trade issues, and given the recent news of President Trump ratcheting up pressure on China for trade violations including patents, Davidson’s USTR background should keep him involved in this front-line issue. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 4:57 pm by Simon Lester
Trump and his Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, had earlier this year said they would complete a plan to reduce steel imports in the name of “national security” by the end of June. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 6:29 am by Amy Howe
The clash has its origins in the announcement, in March of this year, by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross that the 2020 census would, for the first time in over 50 years, include a question about whether individuals responding to the census are U.S. citizens. [read post]
14 May 2017, 5:57 am by Simon Lester
  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross also made reference to the possibility of a larger trade deal: We're not finished negotiating with China. ... [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 12:08 pm by Amy Howe
The events giving rise to the dispute now before the Supreme Court arose in March of this year, when Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 census would include a question about citizenship, intended to help the Department of Justice enforce federal voting-rights laws. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 3:32 pm by Amy Howe
This one came from the challengers in the case, who urged the justices to turn down the federal government’s request for a ruling that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross did not intend to discriminate against Hispanic voters when he made the decision to include the citizenship question. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 11:31 am by Lyle Denniston
Challengers to the citizenship question in recent weeks have mounted a legal campaign in three separate courts to press anew their argument that hostility to Hispanics and other people was a key motive for Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross when he decided to put a citizenship inquiry on the 2020 forms. [read post]
10 May 2018, 2:16 am
The following day, Wilbur Ross (Secretary of Commerce) and Andrei Iancu (Undersecretary of Commerce and USPTO Director) released a joint statement adding some flesh to Trumps words. [read post]
5 Jul 2019, 12:51 pm by Amy Howe
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]
18 May 2018, 4:00 am by Nicholas Weaver
-China trade deal, both Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow stated that the ZTE issue was a question of enforcement separate from trade. [read post]
4 Jun 2019, 12:29 pm by Vishnu Kannan
Separately, the House Oversight Committee is scheduled to vote on holding Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and the attorney general in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena for documents relating to the administration’s plan to add a question about U.S. citizens to the 2020 census, the Post reports. [read post]