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Originally Posted by scottw
it's not like it was unanimous
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/u...eme-court.html
Supreme Court Leaves Census Question on Citizenship in Doubt
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. filed his own partial dissent.
To put the point bluntly, he wrote, the federal judiciary has no authority to stick its nose into the question whether it is good policy to include a citizenship question on the census or whether the reasons given by Secretary Ross for that decision were his only reasons or his real reasons. |
This is a silly remark from an otherwise very smart person. The Administration has the legal obligation to ensure requests like this are justified. They were caught lying about it. This isn't rocket science.
What's better is that in sending the case back down Roberts opened it up to consider the issue that not only did the Admin lie about the justification, but that the entire motive was for political manipulation of a non-political process. Of this the evidence is clear.
It's DOA.