Texas Congressman Chip Roy Urges Trump to Ignore the Swamp and Print Citizenship Ques
Texas Congressman Chip Roy Urges Trump to Ignore the Swamp and Print Citizenship Question on the Census
Rep. Chip Roy thinks Trump is making a big mistake by capitulating on the census.
Published 7 hours ago on Jul 3, 2019 By Shane Trejo
The Trump administration announced today that they will be acquiescing to liberals by removing the citizenship question from the upcoming 2020 census, in what the fake news media is calling the “biggest defeat of his Presidency.”
“We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process,” DOJ attorney Kate Bailey told the opposing counsel in the census litigation.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) believes this capitulation is wholly unnecessary and is urging President Trump to re-consider.
Chip Roy
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@chiproytx
Absolutely. It’s the lawyers advising him. @realDonaldTrump should ignore them. Completely. Print the census with the question - and issue a statement explaining why - “because we should.” Done. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/st...11063743967232 …
Dan McLaughlin
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@baseballcrank
Completely unforced error. Court confirmed that Trump had the power to do this, if the Administration had handled it competently. https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/statu...10053633916928 …
5:51 PM - Jul 2, 2019
The Trump administration announced today that they will be acquiescing to liberals by removing the citizenship question from the upcoming 2020 census, in what the fake news media is calling the “biggest defeat of his Presidency.”
“We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process,” DOJ attorney Kate Bailey told the opposing counsel in the census litigation.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) believes this capitulation is wholly unnecessary and is urging President Trump to re-consider.
Chip Roy
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@chiproytx
Absolutely. It’s the lawyers advising him. @realDonaldTrump should ignore them. Completely. Print the census with the question - and issue a statement explaining why - “because we should.” Done. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/st...11063743967232 …
Dan McLaughlin
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@baseballcrank
Completely unforced error. Court confirmed that Trump had the power to do this, if the Administration had handled it competently. https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/statu...10053633916928 …
5:51 PM - Jul 2, 2019
Roy is fighting the liberal spin on Twitter on behalf of lawful Americans, and wants the President to show the same courage.
Chip Roy
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@chiproytx
Replying to @johnstodder @realDonaldTrump
Lawless is the state of our border. Lawless is being ruled by Judges on matters of policy choices. Lawless is NOT rightly advising the President to follow the Constitution & include a citizenship question on the census - particularly in light of the opinion!
7:14 PM - Jul 2, 2019
By capitulating on the census, Trump is going against the will of the voters. A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll that was released on Tuesday shows that a super-majority of voters, 67 percent, believe the U.S. government ought to be permitted to ask U.S. residents if they are lawful citizens on the census.
Trump has changed his tune from a series of Tweets that he issued just last week, which made it seem like he was ready to fight an incomprehensible Supreme Court decision.
“I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the United States Supreme Court is given additional information from which it can make a final and decisive decision on this very critical matter,” President Trump tweeted.
“Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census, in this case for 2020,” he added.
“Can anyone really believe that as a great Country, we are not able the ask whether or not someone is a Citizen,” Trump asked to highlight the ridiculousness of SCOTUS decision. “Only in America!”
A potential silver lining to the ruling in Department of Commerce v. New York was Chief Justice John Roberts’ assertion that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross may use his discretion provided by the Constitution’s enumeration clause, the Administrative Procedure Act, and several acts of Congress governing the census to include the census question under a different pretext.
“I expect that the Trump administration’s Commerce Department and Department of Justice could well be back before the Supreme Court’s next term begins in October arguing for the question’s inclusion, and they could well win and include the question,” Richard Hasen wrote for Slate before the Trump administration’s capitulation.
Rep. Roy is hoping that he can spur Trump into reversing his decision and to continue the fight by pushing for another SCOTUS ruling before the census is issued without the crucial citizenship question in 2020.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/texas-...on-the-census/
