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Raw Story reports:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dept. of Commerce v. New York, where the state of New York sued over the question the Trump administration placed on the census asking about legal citizenship.
The Court decided that they agreed with lower court decisions and that the reason for putting the question on the census was “invalid.” It was a 5-4 ruling but it was Chief Justice John Roberts who joined with the liberal justices.
The Trump administration claimed they needed the question to comply with federal voting rights laws, but New York called it purely partisan because it will prompt fewer Latinos to fill out the census.
BREAKING: #SCOTUS rules #CitizenshipQuestion will not be on 2020 census. Supreme Court affirms in part, reverses in part and sends back to district court. https://t.co/cP8FanToa7
— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) June 27, 2019
The upshot of the census decision is that Roberts votes with the left to remand to the Commerce Department to provide a non-pretextual explanation for the question. For now, the question is out. It is unclear if there is enough time left to add it back in.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 27, 2019
Complicated ruling on Census and citizenship question:https://t.co/Na0SPb6lhy Supreme Court sending case back to agency. Unclear what this means for citizenship question being added to 2020 census given deadline to print it this summer.
— Natalie Brand (@NatalieABrand) June 27, 2019
Prediction: tomorrow, the DACA cases will be sent back to the agency for reconsideration in light of the Census case, on the ground that the administration’s rationale for ending DACA arguably doesn’t match the facts of what it did. So DACA will live on, briefly.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 27, 2019