Thursday, March 7, 2019

On the district court rulings that the planned "citizenship" question in the next Census is unconstitutional


Alan Dershowitz says this is a difficult Constitutional question.  https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/03/07/census-citizenship-question-us-democracy/?fbclid=IwAR0nwvO66iFUNeNxQc8GBDl1W0heIEYTUYN3LsEbSzopqh2bYZ6xqRT3xYg  Well, the case law does allow the Government to collect additional information when conducting the Census. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/census-constitution.html

But it seems pretty plain that if the intent of a particular question (or even the impact, even if there is no intent) is to suppress the actual count of persons, then it would be unconstitutional, as the district court judges have found.

To see why, in addition to the actual evidence of intent here, take a look at the
relevant provision from Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution:

“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.” https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/Article_1_Section_2.pdf

The language speaks of “Numbers of free persons,” not “citizens.”   If the five Republican appointees to the Supreme Court are true to their professed view that the Constitution should be taken literally as written, they cannot, in good faith, rule that the “citizenship” question is permissible, given the clear evidence of intent that it is intended to scare people from filling out the Census Forms.

Monday, March 4, 2019

Pete Buttigieg Links: 2019

Peteforamerica.com

David Remnick interview in The New Yorker (April 2, 2019):
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/pete-buttigieg-plans-win-democratic-presidential-nomination-defeat-trump

Bill Mahr, Real Time (March 29, 2019):
https://www.newsandguts.com/video/pete-buttigieg-with-bill-maher-in-order-to-beat-trump-we-gotta-run-a-campaign-thats-not-all-about-trump/?fbclid=IwAR09csXkfem4VE3qH3xYTlyx0TUtFUU8om7Wijrk__K4J85wnWiPDFtZUC0

Sarah Pulliam Bailey in Washington Post (March 29, 2019):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/03/29/evangelicals-helped-get-trump-into-white-house-pete-buttigieg-believes-religious-left-will-get-him-out/?utm_term=.0dcb267843e1

Mother Jones (March 29, 2019):

NY Times (March 28, 2019):

The Daily Show (March 27, 2019):

Jennifer Rubin in Washington Post (March 27, 2019):

The Hill (March 24, 2019):

 E.J. Dionne in Washington Post (March 24, 2019):

Jon Allen and Ali Vitali in NBC News (March 24 , 2019):

Daily Kos (March 22, 2019):


The Hill on Joe Scarborough tweet on Pete (March 20, 2019):
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/435036-scarborough-compares-buttigieg-to-obama

Ryan Lizza interview in Esquire (March 20, 2019)

Interview on Morning Joe (March 20, 2019), in two parts:

Vice interview (March 18, 2019)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yw847y/millennial-presidential-candidate-pete-buttigieg-has-actual-experience-with-the-student-loan-crisis  

Chris Wallace interview on Fox News Sunday (March 17, 2019):
http://youtu.be/y97QknIG-Eo

Guardian review of Shortest Way Home (March 17, 2019:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/17/shortest-way-home-review-pete-buttigieg-president

Andrew Clark of the Indiana Star (March 16, 2019):
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/16/south-bend-indiana-mayor-pete-buttigieg-donors-dnc-debate/3184796002/

John Bowden in The Hill (March 16, 2019):
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/434408-buttigieg-says-campaign-gained-enough-donors-to-be-on-debate-stage?amp

Chelsea Janes and Michael Scherer of the Washington Post (March 16):

Pete Buttigieg’s Letter to the South Bend Muslim Community (March 15, 2019):

WMUR (N.H.) Conversation with Pete Buttigieg (March 14, 2019):

Fox News (March 13, 2019):

Buzz Feed on the Town Hall (March 13, 2019):

Dan Merica’s CNN article on the Town Hall (March 13, 2019):

Michael D’Antonio in CNN (March 12, 2019):       

Amy Parnes in The Hill on the Town Hall (March 11):


Erroll Louis in CNN (March 11, 2019):

Morning Joe report on CNN Town Hall (March 11, 2019):
https://topnewsshow.com/morning-joe-3-11-19-msnbc/  (19:16-23:13)

David Axelrod tweet after the March 10 CNN Town Hall:
https://mobile.twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1104922963386630144?fbclid=IwAR0pIqo8Dhq-NRE_Yse-Dx_b801DlpIxJka1OzuRxqxs_hpx-Fi2192IgtE

Jake Tapper CNN Town Hall at SXSW Conference (March 10, 2019):
https://youtu.be/IRRjQdRUuHs

Ana Marie Cox interview at SXSW Conference (March 9, 2019):
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yNGaOWpvogxj?t=11s





Pete Buttigieg’s Twitter Feed:

Pete Buttigieg’s A Letter from Flyover Country (December 16, 2016):