Supreme Court Puts Census Citizenship Question on Hold — for Now

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The Supreme Court put the census citizenship question on hold for now, but the path forward in this case is exceptionally murky

Can Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross come up with a better rationale for the citizenship question than the lies he told Congress? Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images In a very complicated decision whose consequences are not at all clear, a 5–4 majority of the Supreme Court put the Trump administration’s plans to ask a citizenship question on the 2020 Census forms on hold until such time as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross comes up with a better rationale for his actions than a voting-rights enforcement...

Thus Roberts agrees on the narrowest possible grounds with the lower court’s decision to “remand” the case to the Commerce Department to see if they can come up with a better explanation for the citizenship question than the lies Ross told to Congress. And now, from tweets in the middle of the night direct from Osaka, Japan, comes this influential opinion:

 

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Let’s get the Supreme Court to hear our cries. No on the citizenship question, but move forward with the other sections of the bill to impeach that traitor of our United States Constitution.

It’s not that murky. Roberts is going to let his fellow Republicans clean up their pretexts for the question then bless it as if their bullshit maneuvers made it all legal.

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