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President Trump issues new executive order with justifications for collecting citizenship information. documentcloud.org/documents/6189… Reason #1: Footnote 1 of J. Alito's dissent.
Reason #4 is the Evenwel justification. Nothing about Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.
Had the government offered these four justifications at the outset, it would have prevailed before #SCOTUS. I remain befuddled why the White House consistently shoots itself in the foot with poor legal arguments. They cannot depend on the courts to bail them out.
Next round of litigation: complaints to prevent the other agencies from releasing citizenship data to the census bureau. And I'm sure the government will advance some sharp deadline, necessitating that the Court resolve these issues right in time for the election.
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