Update to Trump’s unconstitutional executive order to exclude non-citizens for purposes of congressional reapportionment. Unsurprisingly, a three-judge panel in New York ruled Trump’s July 21 memorandum on the matter was “an unlawful exercise of the authority granted to” him by Congress. They said in a lengthy but unsigned opinion that the question is “not particularly close or … Read more
I don’t know why Republicans are so hellbent on a sixth conservative justice on the Supreme Court when the five justices they already have on the court have been going apeshit with election challenges in favor of Republicans, and now giving a “win” to the Trump administration on the U.S. Census (America loses). This does … Read more
Update to Trump Administration Appeals Census Case to SCOTUS. The Trump administration’s blatant sabotage of the 2020 Census to create a deliberate undercount and to manipulate the data to give white rural areas an advantage over heavily populated diverse urban areas, i.e., a partisan division between Red America vs. Blue America to give the minority … Read more
Last week, a three-judge panel in Federal District Court in Manhattan rejected President Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that will be used next year to reallocate seats in the House of Representatives, ruling that it was so obviously illegal that a lawsuit challenging the order need not go to a trial. Federal Court … Read more
Is this some of the advice on “how to violate the law” that war criminal John Yoo is giving to Donald Trump? After losing in the U.S. Supreme Court last year to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, Donald Trump is back today trying to exclude non-citizens from the census count for purposes … Read more