Officials involved say they're actually to be printed in October, leaving time for another ruling. States with large immigrant populations would know about how much federal funding was needed to cover immigrants’ costs incurred in public education and English as a second language courses. The ruling means the question might not be decided on before 2020 census ballots are printed for distribution. The administration had cited the need to improve enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. A question about citizenship had once been common, but it has not been widely asked since 1950. South Australia, Applying Behavioural Science to Create Change Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis. The decision means the controversial question is unlikely to appear on the 2020 census, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile.

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WATCH: What’s at stake in the battle over the 2020 census citizenship question. 5 questions answered about the medical privacy law, Thousands arrive in Hawaii on first day pre-travel testing, Up to 279,700 extra deaths have occurred in the U.S. so far this year, U.S. authorities say top Mexico official helped smuggle drugs to America, What’s at stake in the battle over the 2020 census citizenship question. That's what the census survey is supposed to figure out," Sotomayor argued. Immigrant advocacy organizations and Democratic-led states, cities and counties argue the citizenship question is intended to discourage the participation of minorities, primarily Hispanics, who tend to support Democrats, from filling out census forms. Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have halted the trial. Indeed, just in the last few weeks, Trump threatened an imminent mass removal campaign, only to temporarily halt the effort at the eleventh hour. Mark Sherman, Associated Press. what may well be the Trump administration’s pretext for the citizenship question to mask partisan political and discriminatory motives. The judges found that Ross had requested the Justice Department to add the question, and not, as he had claimed, the other way around. WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census Thursday, giving opponents new hope of defeating it. Subscribe to ‘Here's the Deal,’ our politics newsletter. Chief Justice Roberts has gone so far as to criticize President Trump for criticizing an “Obama judge.” In a November 2018 statement virtually unheard of from a chief justice, Roberts said “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges … What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.

When the decision was alerted on smart phones outside the Homestead Detention Centre in Florida, so-called volunteer witnesses cheered. The US Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 census for the time being. However, opponents claimed that the question was motivated by partisan political considerations, including voter suppression and an effort to systematically undercount immigrants, particularly Hispanics. Watch live: Women's March in Washington, D.C. Trump rallies in Wisconsin as state's COVID cases climb, Watch live: New York Governor Cuomo makes announcement, New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern wins second term in election landslide, Trump was warned Giuliani was target of Russian disinformation campaign, Suspect in teacher's beheading in France was Chechen teen, What we've learned about Barrett's views on abortion cases, Shark Lab tags record number of sharks off Southern Calif. coast, Battleground Tracker: Latest polls, state of the race and more, 5 things to know about CBS News' 2020 Battleground Tracker, CBS News coverage of voting rights issues. Because the census is conducted only once every 10 years, it can affect close to a generation of policies. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox. It also says the question is plainly constitutional because it has been asked on many past censuses and continues to be used on smaller, annual population surveys. In 2018, Wilbur Ross, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Trump, announced that the Bureau of the Census intended to add a question about U.S. citizenship in the form sent to all households in the 2020 census. Conservative Supreme Court justices said little as a Trump administration lawyer defended the government's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census on Tuesday. States, cities and rights groups that sued over the issue don't even have the right to go into federal court, the administration says. The lower court judges dismissed Ross' contention that the question, and the detailed information it would produce on where eligible voters live, is needed to aid in the enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. A lower court found the administration violated federal law in the way it tried to add a question broadly asking about citizenship for the first time since 1950. Kevin Johnson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The court said that the Department of Commerce’s claim that the citizenship question was solely designed to help Voting Right Act enforcement seemed “contrived.”. Commerce Department officials had tried to get other agencies involved to “clear certain legal thresholds” to ask the question. Oct 16

In immigrant communities, fear of government has increased during the Trump administration. And it avoids going too far in criticizing the decision to use the citizenship question. Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted that historical precedence asked Barbara Underwood, the former New York attorney general during oral arguments if that precedence should affect how the Court should look at the inclusion of the citizenship question, according to transcripts of Tuesday's arguments.

At the moment, the question is part of a detailed annual sample of a small chunk of the population, the American Community Survey. The case stems from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ decision in 2018 to add a citizenship question to the next census, over the advice of career officials at the Census Bureau, which is part of the Commerce Department. "Getting an accurate gauge of the population is crucially important but underrepresentation of non-citizens and minorities raises other questions as well and that was a big concern in arguments today," she added. That, in turn, affects how federal money is spent and which groups and programs are preferred or disfavored. This act requires that certain procedures be followed in administrative decisions and that agency officials offer reasoned and rational explanations for their decisions. For example, a city could use the number to establish a need for resources to facilitate naturalization and other immigrant services. Three federal courts have blocked the Commerce Department from adding the citizenship question. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium.

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