The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene immediately in the census, hours after an appellate court ordered the count extended until the end of the month.
The request comes after a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge’s ruling that ordered data collection for the census extended until the end of October.
In the new filing, Justice Department attorneys asked the Supreme Court to intervene on an emergency basis, saying that it would be able to complete an accurate census count without any further counting.
The Trump administration been embroiled in litigation for months over the 2020 census, which is used to determine House apportionment, state-level redistricting, and federal funding for the coming decade.
On top of all that, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a further wrench in the government’s ability to ensure an accurate count. After initially saying that it would need four extra months to complete the count, the Trump administration decided to end it early.
Now, in its petition to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is averring that “the Bureau is on track to achieve a suitably accurate census count.”
Read the filing here:
Ask them to force the census to stop counting people as mandated by the constitution?
Be able to have a accurate count without any further counting? Is the argument that they have 100 percent count of everyone in the country?
IMPOTUS runs to GOPSCOTUS.
Sad!
Is SCOTUS more of Donnie’s ‘representatives’ that he runs to? We know he ‘thinks’ CONGRESS is…‘funny’ how this co-equal branches of government just doesn’t resonate with Trump.
If SCOTUS takes this up ASAP, and SCOTUS also follows the Constitution and the required task for the enumeration, then SCOTUS will tell the Executive branch to properly finish the count, even if it requires working well into the next year. Anything less than that would indicate a corrupt SCOTUS.
Not bloody likely, given John ‘BallsAndStrkes’ Roberts penchant for curtailing voting rights.
Sadly I don’t see any indication that the majority on SCOTUS is just not another arm of the corrupt GOP