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Re census citizenship q, what a dumbfounding opinion. SCOTUS says citizenship q is constitutional. SCOTUS says Sec Ross made a reasonable decision to include it, reasonably explained. Yet SCOTUS doesn't allow it bc it doesn't believe in stated rationale supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf… 
SCOTUS is happy to bend over backward in deferring to federal agencies, except when the Left goes nuts over something the SCOTUS itself says is constitutional and reasonable supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Justice Thomas in re census citizenship case: "Our only role in this case is to decide whether the Secretary complied with the law and gave a reasoned explanation for his decision. The Court correctly answers these questions in the affirmative...That ought to end our inquiry."
Insanity of census citizenship case ruling at SCOTUS as described by Justice Thomas: "For the first time ever, the Court invalidates an agency action solely because it questions the sincerity of the agency’s otherwise adequate rationale" supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Justice Thomas continues: "Unable to identify any legal problem with the Secretary’s reasoning, the Court imputes one by concluding that he must not be telling the truth." supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Justice Thomas well describes the absurd standard to which the Trump administration -- yes, specifically the Trump administration -- was held in the census citizenship question case at SCOTUS. Another dangerous invented rationale and new precedent supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
In other words, SCOTUS ruled as it did re the census citizenship question because ORANGE MAN BAD supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
The only positive thing to come out of SCOTUS's census citizenship ruling (besides establishing that yes, of course, the question is constitutional) is that SCOTUS may have inadvertently opened up the administrative state to constant, relentless attack supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Justice Alito further illustrates that the census citizenship question ruling is an inadvertent attack on the administrative state -- but at major cost to the American people supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Under Chief Justice Roberts (notwithstanding Auer ruling yesterday) the administrative state is afforded almost total deference except in the case of the Trump administration, when even patently Constitutional actions are subject to being overruled on illegitimate grounds
