January 16, 2019
Activist Obama Appointed Judge Restrains Census from asking about Immigration Status
Timothy Birdnow
Oops - they did it again!
With yet another glorious example of judicial overreach bordering on the tyrannical, a Federal judge in New York has issued a ruling preventing the Census Bureau from asking people if they are illegal aliens or not.
According to the Fox News article:
Well, counting from 2017 to 2020 I get three years - the amount of time the judge says is required for notification. Not sure where this brilliant jurist studied math.
It should be pointed out that this is simply putting this question back onto the census; it had been there from 1820 to 1950, and given the huge number of aliens currently entering the country it is a reasonable thing to determine who is a citizen - especially since the census is what is used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives.
This is, of course, the reason why the "civil rights" groups oppose it; they want illegals to be able to vote and the Democrats to steal more seats. In short, they want to disenfranchise the American citizen..
Please note; the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project was one of the groups fighting the question addition. Why? Illegals aren't supposed to vote. I would like to know why this suit could be brought anyway; anyone who claims grievance has no standing, or shouldn't considering they are illegal aliens and legal aliens and citizens cannot possibly show that they are being hurt by this.
Judge Jesse Furman was, of course, an Obama appointee and based in Manhattan.
Oops - they did it again!
With yet another glorious example of judicial overreach bordering on the tyrannical, a Federal judge in New York has issued a ruling preventing the Census Bureau from asking people if they are illegal aliens or not.
According to the Fox News article:
Among other things, the judge said, Ross didn't follow a law requiring that he give Congress three years notice of any plan to add a question about citizenship to the census. The ruling came in a case in which a dozen states or big cities and immigrants' rights groups argued that the Commerce Department, which designs the census, had failed to properly analyze the effect the question would have on immigrant households.
Other civil rights groups, like the American Civil Liberties Union, applauded the court’s decision.
"This ruling is a forceful rebuke of the Trump administration’s attempt to weaponize the census for an attack on immigrant communities,†director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, Dale Ho, said in a statement. "The inevitable result would have been – and the administration’s clear intent was – to strip federal resources and political representation from those needing it most.â€
The Justice Department said it was "disappointed" by the ruling and is "still reviewing" it.
"Secretary Ross, the only person with legal authority over the census, reasonably decided to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census in response to the Department of Justice's request for better citizenship data, to protect voters against racial discrimination," Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco said in a statement. "Our government is legally entitled to include a citizenship question on the census and people in the United States have a legal obligation to answer. Reinstating the citizenship question ultimately protects the right to vote and helps ensure free and fair elections for all Americans."
The Commerce Department, last May, said in a statement that the citizenship question would be added to the 2020 census count in response to a request made by the Justice Department in December 2017. The statement said that Ross had "determined that reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire is necessary to provide complete and accurate census block level data.â€
Other civil rights groups, like the American Civil Liberties Union, applauded the court’s decision.
"This ruling is a forceful rebuke of the Trump administration’s attempt to weaponize the census for an attack on immigrant communities,†director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, Dale Ho, said in a statement. "The inevitable result would have been – and the administration’s clear intent was – to strip federal resources and political representation from those needing it most.â€
The Justice Department said it was "disappointed" by the ruling and is "still reviewing" it.
"Secretary Ross, the only person with legal authority over the census, reasonably decided to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census in response to the Department of Justice's request for better citizenship data, to protect voters against racial discrimination," Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco said in a statement. "Our government is legally entitled to include a citizenship question on the census and people in the United States have a legal obligation to answer. Reinstating the citizenship question ultimately protects the right to vote and helps ensure free and fair elections for all Americans."
The Commerce Department, last May, said in a statement that the citizenship question would be added to the 2020 census count in response to a request made by the Justice Department in December 2017. The statement said that Ross had "determined that reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire is necessary to provide complete and accurate census block level data.â€
Well, counting from 2017 to 2020 I get three years - the amount of time the judge says is required for notification. Not sure where this brilliant jurist studied math.
It should be pointed out that this is simply putting this question back onto the census; it had been there from 1820 to 1950, and given the huge number of aliens currently entering the country it is a reasonable thing to determine who is a citizen - especially since the census is what is used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives.
This is, of course, the reason why the "civil rights" groups oppose it; they want illegals to be able to vote and the Democrats to steal more seats. In short, they want to disenfranchise the American citizen..
Please note; the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project was one of the groups fighting the question addition. Why? Illegals aren't supposed to vote. I would like to know why this suit could be brought anyway; anyone who claims grievance has no standing, or shouldn't considering they are illegal aliens and legal aliens and citizens cannot possibly show that they are being hurt by this.
Judge Jesse Furman was, of course, an Obama appointee and based in Manhattan.
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