A Chilling Warning from Eric Holder re: upcoming SCOTUS oral arguments

[hlthe2b]

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/the-supreme-court-could-shift-power-to-republicans-for-the-next-decade/

The Supreme Court Could Shift Power to Republicans for the Next Decade
The Trump administration’s census citizenship question comes before the court on Tuesday.
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The administration added the question—“Is this person a citizen of the United States?”—in March 2017, claiming it was needed to better enforce the Voting Rights Act. The decennial census hasn’t had a citizenship question since 1950, and civil rights groups say the question will depress responses from immigrants who worry it could be used to initiate deportation proceedings against them. If large numbers of immigrants don’t respond to the census, the areas where they live could lose representatives in Congress and federal funding, transferring economic and political power to whiter and more Republicans areas. The Census Bureau opposed the addition of the question, saying it could cause as many as 6.5 million people not to respond to the census and increase the cost of conducting the census by millions of dollars.
Three federal courts have ruled against the citizenship question, with one federal judge from California saying it “threatens the very foundation of our democratic system,” but the Supreme Court will have the final say. The court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday, in a case that both sides agree will be one of the most consequential for democracy in decades.

The case stems from a lawsuit filed by Democratic attorneys general from nearly 20 states, led by New York. The consequences are big: The census determines how $880 billion in federal funding is allocated, how much representation states receive, and how political districts are drawn. “Given the stakes, the interest in an accurate count is immense,” Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York wrote in January in the first ruling striking down the citizenship question. “Even small deviations from an accurate count can have major implications for states, localities, and the people who live in them—indeed, for the country as a whole.”

[2naSalit]

1. THIS IS MAJOR!!!

They cannot be allowed to do this!! They will easily destroy everything that's left with this.

[FakeNoose]

2. Wasn't this question already shot down?

I could swear they got a court ruling on it last year.

[hlthe2b]

3. Supreme Court appeal.

[catrose]

4. Three federal courts have ruled against; now it goes to the Supremes :-(

[IndyOp]

5. Everything depends on making Congress, Senate, House BLUE, BLUE, BLUE

in 2020. The 2020 Census with the citizenship question has the capacity to do tremendous damage and if DC goes BLUE, some of the damage can be ameliorated in terms of where the money goes and voting rights/access etcetera.

If I am being overly optimistic, maybe just let it go for now - we all need to focus on what we CAN do.

[cstanleytech]

6. Only way to undo it would be to win 51 seats in the Senate while retaining the House majority

as well as winning the White House and then ramming through legislation to increase SCOTUS to 15 and then like the Repugnants have done we ram through new judges but in this case they would be liberal ones.
After that we work to get the case reheard by the new SCOTUS somehow.

[spanone]

7. this administration is the enemy of the people

some fresh hell every day