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1/ Just a reminder of the obvious: Mitch McConnell's refusal to allow a Garland vote and Jim Comey's October letter have already had a far more significant impact on the law and governance of our nation than virtually everything else combined will have over the next half-century.
2/ In the past two terms alone: Trump v. Hawaii, gerrymandering, census, Janus, Knick, Hyatt, Preap, NIFLA, Epic, Jesner, Husted, SAS Institute, Jennings, Smith, Encino Motorcars, Currier, AmEx, Perez, Wisconsin Cent., possibly Wayfair.

Profound/long-lasting practical impacts.
3/ Now multiply that by another 10/20/30 Terms . . .
2a/ correction--might be that the citizenship question *won't* be on the census.
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Marty Lederman
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1/ A reminder to all those "census officials and lawyers at the Justice and Commerce departments [who] scrapped holiday plans and spent their Independence Day seeking new legal rationales for a citizenship question":

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
2/ It is *not your job* to come up with still more "contrived reasons" (Roberts, CJ) for *any* agency policy, let alone one that is, in fact, impermissibly motivated.

Indeed, that's a breach of your duty--an abuse of your office.

Seriously.

P.S. It's also not your job . . .
3/ . . . to ""work[] furiously to find a way to appease [the President]."

Think about it.
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Marty Lederman
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1/ Understanding the census backflip. What comes next? Speculation:

1. They won't disregard the injunction.

2. Sec. Ross will announce a *new* rationale, most likely that in fn. 1 of the Alito dissent--and, technically, a brand new decision to add the citizenship question.
2/

3. Litigation will commence about how he arrived at that rationale--in addition to the equal protection challenges currently pending.

4. There was never a legal July 1 deadline--but the cost of printing goes *way* up now. And Oct. 31 apparently is a real deadline.
3/

5. Can all the litigation--*after* the new administrative process--be completed in that four-month window? Well, yes if John Roberts wants it to; if not, probably not.

6. What will Roberts do on the merits if it gets that far? You're kidding yourself if you think you know.
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The basic electoral problem: The Democratic nominee could beat Trump by 5-10 million votes and flip MI, PA and ME-2--all very likely--and still lose 270-268. That's undoubtedly Trump's strategy. If so, the only polls (and votes) that matter are those in WI, AZ and FL.
Correction (thanks to @MajorDenihil)--that'd be 269 to 269, but same outcome.
Which is significant because it means that if the Democratic candidate can flip NE-2 in addition to ME-2 (and MI & PA), that's enough. Omahans should be prepared for a *lot* of attention.
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