Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the Supreme Court's liberal bloc on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's justification for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, sending the matter back to the Commerce Department for further explanation and review.
"Altogether, the evidence tells a story that does not match the explanation the Secretary gave for his decision. In the Secretary’s telling, Commerce was simply acting on a routine data request from another agency. Yet the materials before us indicate that Commerce went to great lengths to elicit the request from DOJ ," Roberts wrote.
Traveling overseas in Japan, President Donald Trump tweeted that the court's decision was"ridiculous" and said he would try to delay the census. "This Court has never held an agency decision arbitrary and capricious on the ground that its supporting rationale was 'pretextual.' Nor has it previously suggested that this was even a possibility," Thomas wrote in his dissent.
The decision leaves open the possibility that the Commerce Department could try again to add a citizenship question to the census, but it's not clear they can do so in time.
Unconstitutional suggestion!
I agree.
Four walls. Just four small walls & a few irons bars.
He can legally delay, but not cancel.
Like that he is smarter than everyone on everything (or he actually believes he is)
This guy really needs to be ignored.
He's been gaming the system all his life. No surprise he'd game the office of POTUS.
Criminal scum!
The Fuhrer has spoken
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