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The Supreme Court ordered further proceedings in the dispute over a citizenship question on the 2020 census form Thursday, saying the Trump administration apparently concealed its true reason for adding the query.

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the Court’s opinion, portions of which were unanimous.

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“It is rare to review a record as extensive as the one before us when evaluating informal agency action — and it should be,” Roberts wrote. “But having done so for the sufficient reasons we have explained, we cannot ignore the disconnect between the decision made and the explanation given. Our review is deferential, but we are “not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free.”

The Department of Commerce, which supervises the Census Bureau, must now identify a more developed explanation for the citizenship question, and present it to the courts for approval.

A coalition of advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined left-leaning state and city governments to sue the administration after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross ordered the Census Bureau to include the citizenship question. The plaintiffs fear such questions discourage minority participation.

Since seats in Congress and federal funds are apportioned on the basis of population, the plaintiffs fear losing legislative representation and federal aid. Some figures suggest as many as 6 million individuals could be excluded from the census count if the citizenship question is incorporated. The Constitution requires an “actual enumeration” of persons. . . .

In a somewhat unusual move, the high court agreed to take the census case before a lower federal appeals court had a chance to review it. The Trump administration told the justices that the census forms must be finalized in June to ensure timely printing and distribution.

The Court appeared poised to allow the citizenship question during oral arguments in April. The dispute was upended at a late stage, however, when the plaintiffs claimed to uncover decisive evidence proving the administration means to use granular citizenship data to give a boost to Republicans during the redistricting process — and that government witnesses concealed as much during the litigation. . . .

The administration vigorously denied those allegations in its own counter-filings, accusing the plaintiffs of waging an “eleventh-hour campaign to improperly derail the Supreme Court’s resolution of the government’s appeal.” Speaking after the plaintiffs lodged those allegations, senior members of the administration denied any such partisan conspiracies in a closed-door testimony before a congressional committee.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman found the administration unlawfully appended the citizenship question to the census survey in a sweeping January ruling, writing that the government had committed “a veritable smorgasbord of classic, clear-cut Administrative Procedure Act violations.”

Two subsequent decisions reached similar conclusions, including findings that the citizenship question violated the Constitution.

The citizenship question was a common feature of the census form until the 1950s.

(Excerpted from Daily Caller.)

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Na Wehrheim
July 4, 2019

Oh Lord protect our country so there’s a place for immigrants to migrate to that is better than where they are presently . in Jesus

Amen

Kahtryn
June 28, 2019

Father,

There are so many daunting issues today. You hold the hearts of Kings in your hands. Your purposes will stand. We ask that truth , righteousness and judgement be upheld regarding the census. We pray that the Supreme court would take their responsibility to up hold the law very seriously and that they not legislate form the bench or allow political views to mar their judgement. You are the Supreme judge and you see all that is true. Please reveal the truth and please help those who are defending this issue that actually seeks to protect our own country and citizenship.

Vicki
June 27, 2019

Our Holy God and Father, we ask in Jesus name for wisdom to win in the courts of this country the right to know who is here. Father, what an insurmountable task of counting when we consider those without addresses, homeless for whatever the reason, those that have been scattered due to natural disasters and those that have crossed our borders illegally. Father, this is a nation of laws, and we pray the courts will uphold those laws. From the beginning of time nations have declared a census and just as You know the hairs on every head of every person in this nation, we pray it to be revealed every person of every tribe and tongue to be made known to those in legal authority here. May Your will be done, nothing hidden, on Earth as it is in heaven.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered. So everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.
Luke 2:1‭, ‬3 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/luk.2.1-3.HCSB
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