There was an interesting new post at Election Law Blog by Election Law Blog by Rick Hasen:

President Trump’s Speech this afternoon in which he said that the Administration would give up on efforts to add a citizenship question to the census is a victory for the rule of law. Many people were predicting that Trump would use an Executive Order in an effort to force people in the Census Bureau to ignore multiple court orders which barred the inclusion of the question. I had been saying to wait and see, and fortunately, the Administration did not provoke a constitutional crisis by ignoring the judiciary and judicial review.

This is the second victory for the rule of law. The first was that the Supreme Court, likely thanks to the Hofeller files, refused to go along with the charade that the government wanted to add the census question to help Hispanic voters in Voting Rights Act lawsuits. In fact, it was quite the opposite: it was an attempt to maximize, in Hofeller’s terms, white Republican voting power at the expense of Hispanics and Democrats. The pretext was too much for even Chief Justice Roberts to handle.

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