Supreme Court Blocks Wilbur Ross Deposition on Census Citizenship Question

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/politics/supreme-court-wilbur-ross-deposition-census.html

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a court order on Monday that would have required Wilbur Ross, the secretary of commerce, to give a deposition in a lawsuit challenging the addition of a question concerning citizenship to the 2020 census.

As is the Supreme Court’s practice in ruling on stay applications, its brief order gave no reasons. The court said its order staying the deposition would stand until it resolved a petition from the Trump administration. A trial in the case is scheduled to start next month.

In urging the justices to bar the deposition, the Trump administration said that Mr. Ross’s subjective motivations for adding the question were legally irrelevant. The administration said that its stated reasons were sufficient to allow courts to examine the lawfulness of the change.

“Those reasons include the Justice Department’s view that citizenship data from the decennial census would be helpful to its enforcement duties under the Voting Rights Act,” Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general, wrote in an emergency application.

[rurallib]

1. rules is for them little people!

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2. That got there fast