Trump threat: "Delay the Census"

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

Let us again be clear; this is his usual lack of impulse control, rather than an actual policy.

[Raven]

1. I don't think he can delay the census. n/t

[hlthe2b]

4. EVERY 10 years IN THE CONSTITUTION. Pretty iron-clad to me.

[Amishman]

18. But could he delay within 2020?

I read Roberts ruling as 'this looks really racist. Go back and do the same thing but take your klan hood off this time'.

They push Census Day from April to July (probably get a lower response rate in the summer, so a bonus for them). Trump's minions fire up the bullshit generator and spin machine, and come up with new reasons. Court right goes back to SCOTUS. Roberts flips back to the right side, puts out a short vague opinion, and lets the question stand. Shorter timeframe lowers oversight and response rate, which probably benefits the Pubs.

[hlthe2b]

19. Here's a reasonable analysis with both the good and bad news

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-census/trump-fumes-as-supreme-court-blocks-census-citizenship-question-idUSKCN1TS1BL

As part of the ruling issued on the last day of the court’s current term, the justices sent the issue back to the Commerce Department for it to decide whether to provide a different rationale for requiring people taking part in the census to declare whether they are citizens.

The clock is ticking, with the administration previously saying that census forms needed to be printed in the coming days. A determination from a federal agency normally would take weeks or months.

“There is really no time. And if the administration tries to rush it that is clearly a red flag,” said Dale Ho, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the challengers.

Jason Torchinsky, a lawyer and Republican redistricting strategist, said the deadline could be extended to the fall, which would enable the Supreme Court to review the new decision.
“They don’t need to redo the entire administrative process, they just need to better justify what they did, in a way that can satisfy the Supreme Court,” Torchinsky said.

Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco said the administration is disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision. “The Department of Justice will continue to defend this administration’s lawful exercises of executive power,” Laco said in a statement.

The census, required by the U.S. Constitution, is used to allot seats in the U.S. House and distribute some $800 billion in federal funds. Opponents have said the question would instill fear in immigrant households that the information would be shared with law enforcement, deterring them from taking part.

Further muddying the waters, there is also ongoing litigation in lower courts over recently unearthed evidence that the challengers have said reveals an illegal discriminatory motive by the administration for adding the question, which the high court could yet weigh in on.

The court ruled against the challengers in a separate 5-4 vote, with all the conservative justices in the majority, that the U.S. Constitution does not in theory prevent the administration or a future one from adding a citizenship question.

[CanonRay]

2. Why not?

He's pissed on every other clause in the Constitution

[Zoonart]

3. Mandated by law.

Article 1 Section 2 of the Constitution, idjit.

[underpants]

7. The problem is he can't count to ten

[Zoonart]

8. HAHA forgot that.

[underpants]

10. 😁

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. I'd say 20.5 is his limit. NT

[CanonRay]

20. As I said idjit

what clause of the Constitution has he not passed on.

[Claritie Pixie]

5. No. Constitution mandates ever 10 years.

He doesn't care about that though. He wipes his decrepit butt with the Constitution every day.

[MineralMan]

6. No, you can't delay the census, you enormous Twit!

You don't get to stop constitutionally mandated things, you overweening asshole!

[underpants]

9. Typical Trump. When he's sees 10 he thinks it means 12 to him.

Like how he overvalues all his assets especially the golf ones

[MattP]

11. Delay Census cancel election you know dictator stuff

[Dennis Donovan]

13. Rec for exposure...

This smells an awful lot like a trial balloon for the 2020 election.

[NewJeffCT]

14. OK - delay it to 2021

so it can be issued by a Democratic president

[malaise]

15. You are not bigger than the fucking Constitution

Fuck off monster!

[Liberal In Texas]

16. So, if he thinks he can delay the census, what will be next, the ELECTION?! n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. 1): This feeds his ego. He gets to insert himself in the news of the day

when there was a danger it would be about Wilbur Ross, or even the dead guy.

2) This helps feed the grievances of his base. They want to feel that "the system" is responsible for their failures, so Trump is putting himself forward as the guy who has been unjustly hurt by "the system" (yes, for him, the US Constitution is "the system" - those paintings by the asshole of Trump being the guy who respects the Constitution are the biggest pile of bullshit, as we all know).

So Trump's handlers have allowed this tweet, since it fires up the base. It doesn't matter that he's fighting the constitution, because his base won't believe anything anyone other than him says on the topic. He can come back a few hours later with a whine that "I'm told activist judges will block Common Sense - Enemies of the People!!!" or similar bullshit, and his base will slurp up the turds with a shit-eating grin.