WASHINGTON, DC – Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote in a sharply divided Supreme Court that voted 5-4 in deciding the U.S. census can ask about citizenship, but by a separate 5-4 vote is sending the case back to the lower court.
The Supreme Court will decide a dozen cases this week before the Court adjourns for the summer, including four major cases, dealing with the U.S. census, redistricting, and deference to government agencies, which could have long-lasting impacts on the nation.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg campaigned Friday against the proposed 2020 census question which asks people in the United States whether or not they are citizens.
Leftwing activists are pushing a coordinated media campaign to pressure Chief Justice John Roberts as the Supreme Court decides whether the 2020 census can ask people in America if they are U.S. citizens.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is upset by the prospect of a basic citizenship question on the 2020 census, calling it “radicalized” and arguing that it would make her mother, who has been a citizen for over 40 years, “hesitate.”
“I think when you have a census and you’re not allowed to talk about whether or not somebody is a citizen or not, that doesn’t sound so good to me,” Trump said.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Kansas’ former Secretary of State Kris Kobach of using “voter suppression techniques” during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) blasted his Democratic colleagues on Wednesday as the House Oversight Committee prepared to hold a vote on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in contempt over their alleged refusal to
Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Friday accused President Donald Trump and his administration of having an intentional “strategy to erase certain communities from the national narrative,” which she said is “most evident through the citizenship question” on the Census.
U.S. Census Bureau Director Dr. Steven Dillingham testifies before Congress on Tuesday on the agency’s preparedness for the 2020 census. The House Oversight hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m. Eastern.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the 2020 census can ask every person in this country whether they are an American citizen, a question with implications for legislative redistricting, voting rights, and presidential politics.
Can the U.S. census ask each person in the country if he is an American citizen? The Supreme Court will hear arguments on that question on Tuesday.
“Can you believe that the Radical Left Democrats want to do our new and very important Census Report without the all-important Citizenship Question,” Trump commented on Twitter. “Report would be meaningless and a waste of the $Billions (ridiculous) that it costs to put together!”
The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can ask every person in America if they are a U.S. citizen, granting review Friday on a legal challenge to that question and bypassing the federal appeals court in an extremely rare move not seen in many years.
The foreign-born population will hit an unprecedented 69 million by 2060 should current legal immigration levels — wherein the U.S. admits more than a million legal immigrants a year — continue unchanged.
A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 United States Census.
Republican lawmakers are working with Democrats to ban the 2020 Census from asking United States residents whether or not they are American citizens.
Republicans still have a chance to win, partly because they are defending favorable districts. And that is because Obama refused to govern as the unifying leader he promised to be.
The median U.S. household income rose for the third year in a row in 2017, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau released Wednesday.
Counting illegal aliens when dividing up congressional districts, seats, and electoral college votes is likely to strip some red states of representation and give blue states with large foreign populations more representation.
U.S. Census officials must not count the number of legal immigrants or illegal migrants in the United States, but must categorize and count everyone’s sexual preferences and their sense of masculinity or feminity, says Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris.
The GOP establishment is making a last ditch effort to stop Kris Kobach from winning the gubernatorial GOP primary on August 7.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is urging residents of California to “resist” the inclusion of a citizenship question on the U.S. Census in 2020 by submitting comments to the U.S. Census Bureau by the August 7 deadline.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post is requesting Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross “eliminate” the citizenship question that has been added to the 2020 Census.
Late last month, my office and the American people received great news from the White House: our petition to reinstate the citizenship question in the decennial 2020 Census was approved. We will once again get a more accurate count of how many American citizens reside in our country.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that asking about citizenship on the Census doesn’t seem unusual “In normal times,” but “given the climate, it strikes me as a menacing question and probably a counterproductive one.” Brooks said,
On the evening of March 26, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 census would reinstate a question on the decennial census that asks respondents whether or not they are citizens.
Counting American citizens on the 2020 Census, as President Donald Trump’s administration has announced they will do, is likely to shift power away from coastal states harboring large illegal alien populations and towards middle America.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, arguing that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to ask in the census whether the people being counted are U.S. citizens violates both federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is the latest left-wing organization to lambast the Commerce Department’s decision to begin asking United States residents on the 2020 Census if they are American citizens.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” DNC Chair Tom Perez criticized the Trump administration’s move to add a citizenship question to the Census as “an intimidation tactic” and “voter suppression.” Perez began by saying that the Census is supposed to count
Former Attorney General and Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Eric Holder, is vowing to “litigate to stop” President Trump from counting United States citizens on the 2020 Census.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, during Tuesday’s briefing, defended the inclusion of a question on citizenship in the U.S. census as providing data to the Department of Justice to protect voters and comply with the Voting Rights Act.
On Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” author, former Hillary Clinton Communications Director, and former White House Communications Director under President Obama Jennifer Palmieri criticized the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, arguing that the Census is meant to count everyone in
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra declared on Monday evening that he will sue the Trump administration after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that a citizenship question will be added to the 2020 Census.
In a historic moment for President Trump’s administration, Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross has announced that a question asking United States residents if they are American citizens will be placed on the 2020 Census.
President Trump’s election and a question that would ask United States residents if they are citizens of the country are unlikely to reduce participation in the upcoming 2020 Census, a new study reveals.
A fundraising email that President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign sent supporters on Monday asking them to support adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census triggered left-wing activists. They are even claiming that Trump’s campaign is assaulting the Constitution.
Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach has sent a letter urging President Trump’s administration to put a question asking United States residents if they are citizens back on the 2020 Census.
Merely asking United States residents if they are American citizens on the 2020 Census, as the Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested, poses a “tremendous risk,” the Census Director who served under former President Obama says.
