What’s up with the delay for the Supreme Court's Census decision?
The much-awaited and consequential Census decision still hasn’t come down, with the current Supreme Court term nearing its end. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images When the U.S. Supreme Court added a second day, then a third, this week to release opinions, Court-watchers figured one decision very likely to come down was in Department of Commerce v.
Other than the fundamental fact that SCOTUS takes its own sweet time on everything, the most obvious explanation for delays in this decision is the intervening appearance of new evidence supporting the Census challengers’ contention that the administration’s rationale for the citizenship question is a big fat lie. They argue that the real motive is a desire to reduce minority participation in the Census.
The new evidence bearing on this question arose from the bizarre circumstance of digital files recently discovered by the daughter of the late GOP gerrymandering wizard Thomas Hofeller, suggesting that he had given the administration a bogus voting-rights-enforcement argument for the citizenship question even as he demonstrated its strictly partisan benefits.
Nobody knows how the Court has reacted to this plea or to the underlying new evidence, which a second district court in Maryland has deemed relevant. But the administration is clearly worried, asking SCOTUS just yesterday to help them out, Howe notes:
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