Supreme Court conservatives sympathetic toward Trump census citizenship query

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic toward a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a plan opponents have called a Republican effort to deter immigrants from taking part in the population count.

During an extended argument session that lasted about 80 minutes, the court's liberal justices voiced skepticism over the administration's stated justification for the citizenship question - that it would yield better data to enforce the Voting Rights Act, which protects eligible voters from discrimination.

Lower courts have blocked the question, ruling that the administration violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution in seeking to include it on the census form.

The court has a 5-4 conservative majority, and conservative justices signaled support toward the administration's stance.

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[Mr. Evil]

1. I have a solution.

Should the SCOTUS approve the addition of this question I would simply instruct everyone not to answer it. A nationwide directive of "skip it."

[Doitnow]

5. My first thought, too. Great idea.

[cstanleytech]

2. This is why once we have 51 in the Senate as well as the Presidency not to

mention a majority in the House that we need to take a page from the Repugnants playbook and ram through 6 new liberal judges to SCOTUS by increasing the number of seats to 15.

[Doitnow]

6. Turtle-face has already said he will not put anything up for a vote in

the Senate that he doesn't like.

[cstanleytech]

8. If the Repugnants lose the majority he will have little say.

[melm00se]

12. Actually yes he will

get thee to the Constitution:

Article II, section 2:

he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint...judges of the Supreme Court,

Note the order:

Nominate THEN confirm.

Having a majority in the Senate will not alter this fact.

Could the House and Senate try and increase the number of Justices? Yes and assuming the President signs it and/or Congress overrides the veto, it still does not alter the fact that the President has to nominate the new Justices.

Additionally, remember the last time someone tried to manipulate the number of Supreme Court justices on ideological grounds? Didn't go so well...

[shraby]

3. If it's there, I plan not to fill it in. I'll put a great big NA over the box.

My and Mr. Shraby's families have been here since the 1660's. I would say we are citizens.

[lark]

4. Current SCOTUS is hostile to constitution for Russian Repug purposes.

Partisan hacks and out and out sexual assaulters are 5 of the 9 justices. Roberts occasionally pretends to care about the constitution, but that's pretty rare that he actually backs up the talk with action and he almost always votes for the oligarchs and against the people. That willl definitely happen this time. It will hurt the orange idiot though because TX and AZ will lose population, sadly CA will get caught in the same net.

edit - fixed typo

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Don't forget FL

and states in the midwest like Iowa that depend on immigrants for their meat packing plants and farms.

[lark]

11. FL illegals are mostly migrant workers, we don't have the volume that is in AZ, TX and CA.

No border with Mexico here. Here we have the Haitians and Cubans via boat. Since FL is so deep in the red due to continuous voter suppression and hacking, it would actually hurt the repug party and they could lose seats in all 3 states. Unfortunately the undercount in CA will hurt Democrats and possibly badly and that is all drumpf cares about - hurting his enemies, not helping his friends.

[Kablooie]

7. This will pass without question.

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court would approve anything that creates an advantage for Republicans.

Republicans have given up any semblance of decency and have become the dishonest, dishonorable party of Trump and SCOTUS has become simply a branch of that party.