How the DOJ just asked the Supreme Court to essentially become a 'branch of the Trump administration

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Published 5 hours ago on June 26, 2019
By Cody Fenwick, AlterNet
- Commentary

With the fate of the nation’s electoral maps — and thus the very basis of democracy — hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on the controversial Census case. But at the last minute, Justice Department Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote new a new plea to the justices asking them to take an even more extraordinary step than simply ruling on the issue before them.

Indeed, law professor Richard Hasen wrote in Slate on Tuesday that if the court goes along with Francisco’s request, it will essentially act as a part of the Trump administration.

The controversy arose when Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross decided to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, which experts believe will reduce compliance with the survey in ways that benefit Republicans and white people electorally. The Justice Department claimed that it had asked Ross to include the question to protect the Voting Rights Act, but critics argued that this was a mere pretext and that the real purpose was to distort the Census results.

Now, more evidence has emerged that not only was the excuse for including the question a pretext but that the Commerce Department was actively working with a GOP operative whose goal was to create maps “advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic Whites.” In light of this new evidence, a lower federal court has sent a separate case challenging the Census question back to a trial court. It’s this case that Francisco wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on, even though doing so would be an extraordinary breach, according to Hasen.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/how-the-doj-just-asked-the-supreme-court-to-essentially-become-a-branch-of-the-trump-administration/

The bastardizing of the law........................William Barr................and his Federalist Society mentality and his lackey's trying to do this crap, there is sufficient evidence that the right wing fascist republicans are trying to bastardized the Census mandatory requirement .......................LOCK THEM UP.......................

[Moostache]

1. When the laws of the nation are no longer valid or constitutionally protected, there is no law.

A nation without equal protection under law is either a dictatorship or a monarchy and neither one is a fit form of governance in the 21st century.

The fuller context of Jefferson's thoughts on this kind of situation...

if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure.