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27 Jun 2019, 12:45 pm
This morning, the Supreme Court told the country what we and our clients have long known: that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross provided a false reason for his decision to add a citizenship question to the Decennial Census. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 12:05 pm
Roberts noted one eeiney, weeney, tiny, problem, that being that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross asked to have the citizenship question included within a week of taking office. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 10:14 am
The decision left open the possibility that the Trump administration could try again to add the citizenship question, but the clock is ticking....In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court today explained that... it was reasonable for [Secretary of Commerce Wilbur] Ross to decide to use the citizenship question instead of the administrative records. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 9:49 am
New York (Art Lien) The dispute began last year, when Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 census would include a question about citizenship. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 9:39 am
New York on the issue of whether the decision by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to include a... [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 8:51 am
., declared that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had used a “contrived” explanation for adding that question to census forms, so it ordered Ross and his aides to examine the issue all over again. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 8:28 am
"The evidence tells a story that does not match the explanation (Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross) gave for his decision," Roberts wrote. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 3:32 pm
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]
26 Jun 2019, 6:15 am
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday granted a motion to remand the Fifth Amendment equal protection claim and the 42 USC § 1985 claim in a Maryland case against Wilbur Ross, US Secretary of Commerce, where the plaintiff claimed that the motives behind the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census were discriminatory. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 3:47 am
Although the Justices have been examining the census dispute on the basis of other issues of federal laws and the Constitution, with no attention to any racial factor, the challengers to the citizenship question in recent days have claimed that they have new evidence of an anti-Hispanic motive by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and other government officials in planning to ask everyone in America about their citizenship. [read post]
25 Jun 2019, 12:45 pm
In a letter from Dale Ho of the ACLU, the groups notified the justices that a federal district judge in Maryland had ruled that new evidence discovered in the files of Thomas Hofeller, a Republican redistricting strategist, had created a “substantial issue” about whether Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross had intended to discriminate against Hispanic voters. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 3:42 pm
A federal judge in Maryland, explained lawyer Dale Ho of the ACLU, ruled that the new evidence had created a “substantial issue” about whether Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross had intended to discriminate against Hispanic voters. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 9:31 am
The challengers to the citizenship inquiry now appear to be a considerable step closer to proving in court their claim that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross decided on the plan mainly to discriminate unconstitutionally against Hispanics in the population count. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 11:31 am
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]
21 Jun 2019, 5:03 am
In early April, a group of 43 bipartisan member of Congress wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, again formally requesting economic sanctions be imposed against China for its gross human rights violations against the Uighurs. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 3:57 pm
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]
20 Jun 2019, 4:16 am
He said then that the challengers had not proved that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who supervises the census, had made the final decision to add that question based upon bias against Hispanics living in the U.S. in an attempt to reduce their participation in the census. [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 1:26 pm
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has said that “the most that will come out of the G20 might be an agreement to actively resume talks,” noting that the two leaders are unlikely to “talk about the details of how…[to] enforce a trade agreement. [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 1:49 pm
Therefore, the challengers pleaded, if the Supreme Court does not uphold the district court’s decision barring the government from using the citizenship question, it should send the case back to the lower court for it to look at whether Hofeller’s “partisan and racially discriminatory motives for adding a citizenship question were shared by, or should otherwise be imputed to, relevant Commerce officials,” including Secretary of Commerce… [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 9:09 am
Upon request by US Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the President has exerted executive privilege over documents demanded by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform regarding the citizenship question on the 2020 census. [read post]
