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New: SCOTUS agrees to hear Trump administration challenge to scope of discovery in trial involving citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Oral argument set for February 19th.
Here’s my recent story on this case amp.economist.com/democracy-in-a…
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Ever seen a football game that's, say, 3-3 at the half but winds up 63-17?

The current Supreme Court term is shaping up to be something like that. 1/

economist.com/democracy-in-a…
There were some important cases heard in the autumn — on the Double Jeopardy Clause, civil-asset forfeiture and Indian lands in Oklahoma, to name three — but overall it's been a pretty tame three months. 2/
The Court has issued three rulings, all unanimous, with nary a concurrence. A total of just 32 pages.

And the justices recently ducked a hot-button Planned Parenthood funding fight. 3/

economist.com/democracy-in-a…
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MORE SCOTUS NEWS: CJ Roberts joins liberals in DENYING a Trump administration's request to stay lower-court ruling against his asylum ban. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh dissent.
If/when this comes to SCOTUS for full review, Roberts is anything but a sure vote to line up against the administration again. Given his uber-deferential opinion in Trump v Hawaii (the travel-ban case) last June, he's quite unlikely to halt an asylum ban on the merits.
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Interesting data in this article on how the justices may inadvertently tip their hands with their voices
I wrote about it here a year ago
economist.com/democracy-in-a…
At my request, the researchers ran the data to try to predict the outcome of two of last year's big cases (on gay-wedding cakes and gerrymandering) by listening closely to Justice Kennedy's pitch. (Results weren't great.)
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#SCOTUS, Dec. 10, 2018. Orders at 9:30a, with opinions in one or more argued cases expected at 10a.
#SCOTUS grants one new case this morning: Kisor v. Wilkie (18-15), limited to question 1: "Whether the Court should overrule Auer and
Seminole Rock." (This could be big.)
Here's the cert petition: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/1… / Response:
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CENSUS CASE UPDATE: DOJ goes to #SCOTUS on the eve of closing arguments in the Census citizenship question trial and “suggests” it “may wish to reconsider” putting trial proceedings on hold while it considers the discovery question. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/1… (h/t @marty_lederman)
Wild to see this filing coming from SG Noel Francisco only on late Monday — after DOJ received trial stay denials from the district court (11/20) and 2nd Cir (11/21) by last Wednesday.
FWIW: Closing the loop on this Census case thread tonight, there was no further docket entry, reflecting #SCOTUS action or anything else, following DOJ’s odd letter filed earlier this evening. supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?fi…
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CENSUS CASE UPDATE: 2nd Circuit denies a stay of the trial proceedings in the Census citizenship question challenge in a brief order, meaning DOJ likely will go to SCOTUS seeking a similar stay soon.
Here was the Tuesday thread on the case, including DOJ's renewed stay request at the 2nd Circuit:
Here was the challengers' opposition to the stay request at the 2nd Circuit, filed earlier today: documentcloud.org/documents/5219…
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#SCOTUS, Oct. 2, 2018.
Madison v. Alabama arguments were really interesting for reasons I’ll be writing about this afternoon, but as to the substance of the case, Alabama appeared to come across to the justices as having the weaker of the arguments, both procedurally and substantively.
An important caveat: Neither Thomas nor Gorsuch spoke, so we did get a tilted view at arguments of what the justices are thinking about here.
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CENSUS 🤓 ALERT: I’m back @ Manhattan federal court for 9:30am ET oral arguments in largest lawsuit against #2020census citizenship question. Judge is deciding whether to dismiss case & whether to order Trump admin to release more internal docs on decision to add Q. THREAD TK👇
2. So far, there are 6 lawsuits against the #2020census citizenship question, which Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (census overseer) approved adding to questionnaire. More than two dozen states & cities, plus other groups & individuals, are trying to get it removed.
3. Lawsuits include:

- State Of NY et al v Commerce Dept et al

- The NY Immigration Coalition et al v Commerce Dept et al

- State of CA v Ross et al

- City Of San Jose et al v. Ross et al

- Kravitz et al v Commerce Dept et al

- La Union Del Pueblo Entero et al v Ross et al
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1) Are you starting to see the pattern around the world? The awakening of people is happening. We're realizing the real path to peace & prosperity.
2) Peace & prosperity will NEVER be achieved by following the extreme ideologies of megalomaniacs. It only leads to poverty & destruction.
3) The pattern is the same. Megalomaniacs convince their people to blindly accept their extreme ideologies as the path towards their salvation. The ideology may be religious, political or cultural but it is always extreme.
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