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The Supreme Court heard arguments today about asking on the 2020 census whether people are citizens or not. The Justices were apparently very comfortable with the idea, according to various reports.
Key U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed inclined to let the Trump administration add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census in a clash that will shape the allocation of congressional seats and federal dollars.
In an 80-minute argument Tuesday that was both technical and combative, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh directed almost all their questions to the lawyers challenging the decision to ask about citizenship. Kavanaugh said Congress gave the Commerce secretary “huge discretion” to decide what to ask on the census.
Supreme Court justices were deeply divided Tuesday over whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, with the conservative justices showing signs that they were inclined to vote in favor of allowing the question.
After more than an hour and a half of arguments where the justices repeatedly interrupted each other and counsel, Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch suggested that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was within his right to add the question.
Chief Justice John Roberts asked questions that seemed at times favorable to the administration, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh stressed that Ross has discretion in the area and that other countries ask a similar question. He called it a "common question" internationally.
I think it is ok for the census to have a citizenship question (not sold on need, but ability to add seems fair) and seems like it should have been on the census to begin with.
Is everyone as tired of talking about Immigration yet? I see no reason to continue talking about it if Immigration Reform is never going to get passed. It's just another wedge issue with no real legislative solutions being proposed until congress gets to it. I don't think most of the country cares to be honest, its not even top 10 outside to the general public.
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I hope they add the us citizen question. Where I live our retirement communities proudly fly the Canadian flag as well as the US flag and many of my Canadian friends who winter here to get out of the cold weather wonder why they HAVE to be counted. Are told if they are in US on census day they MUST be counted. Many of the retirement parks around here are 50% or greater Canadian and the census people are adumunt they MUST be counted.
The Supreme Court heard arguments today about asking on the 2020 census whether people are citizens or not. The Justices were apparently very comfortable with the idea, according to various reports.
Counting illegals is the same as counting cows in Oklahoma to determine representation in Congress. Congress should only be allocating representatives based on the number of citizens in that state.
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