Last Call For It's About Suppression, Con't

If Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments were any indication, we'll soon have a 5-4 SCOTUS decision on the Census question of citizenship that could terrorize millions of undocumented in America as the Trump regime gears up for mass detainment and deportations, and cost blue states several congressional districts starting in 2022.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Tuesday appeared inclined to hand President Donald Trump a victory on his administration’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a move opponents call a Republican effort to deter immigrants from taking part.

During arguments in the closely watched case, conservative justices rallied in defense of the administration’s stated justification for using the citizenship question in the decennial population count, while their liberal counterparts remained skeptical. 

The court has a 5-4 conservative majority. Among the conservative justices indicating support toward the administration’s stance were Trump’s two appointees, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, considered the court’s pivotal vote. 

Lower courts have blocked the question, ruling that the administration violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution in seeking to include it on the census form. A ruling by the Supreme Court is due by the end of June. 

Opponents have said inclusion of a citizenship question would cause a sizeable undercount by frightening immigrant households and Latinos from filling out the census forms, fearful that the information would be shared with law enforcement. This would cost Democratic-leaning areas electoral representation in Congress and federal aid, benefiting Trump’s fellow Republicans and Republican-leaning parts of the country, they said.

The census is used to allot seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and distribute some $800 billion in federal funds. 

During extended arguments that lasted about 80 minutes, Roberts and other conservative justices appeared to embrace the administration’s argument that the question would yield better data to enforce the Voting Rights Act, which protects eligible voters from discrimination. 

Roberts challenged New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood, whose state sued the administration over the plan to add the question, saying citizenship is critical information for enforcing the Voting Rights Act. Roberts also said it is “quite common” for census questions to capture demographic information.

This ruling could very well seal a permanent Republican government for at least another decade, if not longer.  If you think the GOP of today is bad, wait until they start rounding up "illegals" and political foes and using force of the state to punish those would protect them.

It's already ugly.  It's going to get lethal, and fast.  The real issue is that Republicans are counting on this to starve blue states of federal money, and to redistribute dozens of House districts from blue states to red, locking in a permanent GOP majority.

This one's going to be bad, guys.  America may not recover from the Trump regime.

But her emails though, right?