WaPo: As lawyers step up census efforts, Trump considers executive order

[Celerity]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-says-he-is-thinking-of-executive-order-to-revive-census-citizenship-question/2019/07/05/d3ec5986-9f20-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html?utm_term=.bc0e1b814c82

The Trump administration on Friday stepped up its effort to place a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, after the president said he was mulling an executive order to deal with the impasse and Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge they were still looking for a legal way forward.

The Supreme Court has called the administration’s rationale for the question “contrived” and said the government could not go forward without a solid justification. On Friday, Trump and a key official mentioned other possible reasons for adding the query in statements that added to a week-long swirl of contradictions and that could make the administration’s case even more difficult.

Government lawyers said in a filing Friday that the Justice and Commerce departments had been “instructed to examine whether there is a path forward” for the question and that if one was found they would file a motion in the Supreme Court to try to get the question on the survey to be sent to every U.S. household.

Their filing came in a case before U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel in Maryland that poses the issue of whether the addition of the citizenship question would violate equal-protection guarantees and whether it is part of a conspiracy to drive down the count of minorities. He scheduled information gathering to begin immediately and conclude by Aug. 19, with any witnesses to testify in early September.

The government has begun printing the census forms without the question, and that process will continue, administration officials said. Statements Friday from Trump and his acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director, Ken Cuccinelli, seemed to add confusion to why the government wants the addition.

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U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel's scheduling order in citizenship-census question case

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/u-s-district-judge-george-j-hazel-s-scheduling-order-in-citizenship-census-question-case/46be26c8-e192-4f87-84ab-fb4ff2cf59fd/?utm_term=.60863181ecf8



Justice Department's July 5 response over citizenship-census question in filing to U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/justice-department-s-july-5-response-over-citizenship-census-question-in-filing-to-u-s-district-court-for-the-district-of-maryland/d745f424-273a-4068-bcad-fdb0a50b04bc/?utm_term=.46b3e4e70f09

[Meadowoak]

1. What if everyone just refuses to answer the citizenship question?

[Celerity]

2. I guess it depends the level of rightful civil disobedience and who is POTUS

If Rump is re-elected, he will find a way to fuck every blue state.