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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
If the Constitution requires that the question be asked, then it should not matter that Secretary Ross was motivated to ask it by a partisan reason, right? [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… [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]
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… [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]
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, 4:10 am
Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. [read post]
2 Jul 2019, 3:23 pm
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]
28 Jun 2019, 1:38 pm
” Thomas noted that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross carried his burden of explaining a reasoned decision. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 9:54 am
But the record was painfully clear that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross had clumsily manufactured this story — cajoling the Department of Justice to make the request. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 8:59 am
., the Court, in a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, said the question could not be in the census because the “sole reason” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross gave for his decision to include it – enforcement of the Voting Rights Act – seemed contrived. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 8:51 am
Indeed, the court stressed that the evidence before Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross suggested that both including and not including the question had downsides and that “in the face of uncertainty” the choice between various alternatives “was the Secretary’s to make. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 8:42 am
Adding to the sting is the fact that the chief justice wasn’t just along for the ride on the closely watched ruling: He penned the majority opinion, which essentially accused Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross of lying about his reasons for seeking to add the question on citizenship. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 6:13 am
Instead, the Supreme Court noted, it was Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross who elicited the request from the Department of Justice. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 6:07 am
The Supreme Court yesterday did not find the citizenship question that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross decided to add to the census improper, find that Ross had any improper motive for including that question, or find that his decision to include that question was contrary to law. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 4:21 am
New York, the court ruled 5-4 that although Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census did not violate the Constitution’s enumeration clause or the Census Act, his stated reasons for doing so were pretextual, and that the question can’t be added until the department provides an adequate explanation for the decision. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 3:53 pm
Today, the court intends to announce “all remaining opinions ready” from this term, as Chief Justice John Roberts put it Wednesday. [read post]
