Background here:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/us/politics/wilbur-ross-commerce-census-citizenship.html …
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So Roberts might actually be aware of the legacy of the "Roberts Court"; he might also be stockpiling subtle wins for Dems in exchange for the big fireworks later re whether Trump can be subpoenaed. Love to see
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Jones v Clinton and US v Nixon are going to make it very hard for SCOTUS to rule that you can't subpoena the sitting President. Even a right wing SCOTUS.
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You're not wrong, but it is specifically why Kavanaugh now sits on the Supreme Court.
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That’s why he chose Kavanaugh over the other Federalist Society candidates but he is not going to get Roberts (or Gorsuch, in my opinion) to overturn those two cases that easily.
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Thomas Alito Gorsuch. This is a minor transgression for Kavanaugh so he can lay low for a while
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Not necessarily. Kavanaugh might have voted with the three dissenters but not wanted his vote to be public. This order doesn't mean it was 6-3; it could have been 5-4.
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Only takes 4 votes to grant cert so you’re wrong
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One must also wonder why, if Kavanaugh would've voted in favor of a stay, he wouldn't want that to be made public. There's no downside for him. It was 6-3.
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Please give me a short summary of the case.
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I think it has to do with a proposed question Trump & Co want to add to the 2020 census. It's a citizenship Q and the fear (and possible purpose of) is that it will discourage people from answering the census and maybe voting in future. My limited understanding
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The question would be about their legal status in the country.
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Ah, thank you. That would reduce responses, wouldn't it?
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SCOTUS ruled years ago that you had to count everybody (legal or not) for apportionment purposes. So there is no "need" to ask the question (which will otherwise inhibit respondents and lower the count in places with a lot of undocumented residents . . . like urban areas.
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Thank you for the much better explanation!
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Feels like we’re 30 minutes away from a “Kavanaugh should have told me he wasn’t going to be loyal” tweet.
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Is it significant that
#Kavanaugh does not appear to have joined Alito, Gorsuch & Thomas in wishing to grant the application? Does this seem surprising?@NinaTotenberg@aclu@tribelaw@maddow@AriMelber@amjoyshow -
Depends on what their reason for it was.
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They colluded in an attempt to not appear political. which is, in and of itself, political. The supreme court is a joke.
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