[EL] Breaking: Supreme Court in Census Citizenship Case Adds Constitutional Question (Enumeration Clause) to the Ongoing Briefing in the Case

[Stew Jenkins]

The brief can be quite short.  Other than the frequency of the census, 
the enumeration clause was superseded in large part by the first 
sentence of the 2nd clause of the 14th amendment:
"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according 
to their respective numbers, counting the WHOLE NUMBER OF PERSONS in 
each State, excluding Indians not taxed. "

While it is true that the rest of the clause formulates a remedy to 
punish states denying the right to vote of a substantial portion of male 
"persons" who are citizens (by reducing the state's representation in 
the House), there is no safe harbor afforded by the 14th Amendment's 
modification of the enumeration clause for the Federal Government if it 
fails through artifice to count ALL PERSONS for purposes of apportioning 
the House of Representatives.

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On 2019-03-15 09:26, Rick Hasen wrote:
> BREAKING: SUPREME COURT IN CENSUS CITIZENSHIP CASE ADDS CONSTITUTIONAL
> QUESTION (ENUMERATION CLAUSE) TO THE ONGOING BRIEFING IN THE CASE [1]
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> Posted on March 15, 2019 12:25 pm [1] by RICK HASEN [2]
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>  Hansi Lo Wang: [3]
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> View image on Twitter [4]
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> HANSI LO WANG [5]
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> ✔@hansilowang [5]
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>  [3]
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>  NEW: The Supreme Court has expanded the #CitizenshipQuestion [6] case
> at #SCOTUS [7] to consider whether including the question is
> unconstitutional, in addition to whether adding it violated
> administrative
> lawhttps://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/031519zr_5436.pdf
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> 12:21 PM - Mar 15, 2019 [3]
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>  [5]
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> See Hansi Lo Wang's other Tweets [5]
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>  Twitter Ads info and privacy [10]
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>  As to why the Court did this now, see my earlier post, DOJ Will Ask
> SCOTUS to Bypass 9th Circuit, and Hear Second Census Citizenship
> Question Case with NY Case at April 23 Oral Argument [11].
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>  [12]
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> Posted in census litigation [13], Supreme Court [14]
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> [1] https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104186
> [2] https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3
> [3] https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1106636579815260160
> [4] https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1106636579815260160/photo/1
> [5] https://twitter.com/hansilowang
> [6] https://twitter.com/hashtag/CitizenshipQuestion?src=hash
> [7] https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOTUS?src=hash
> [8] https://t.co/EA9sXoIlR1
> [9] https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1106636579815260160
> [10] https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175256
> [11] https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104105
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> [13] https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=125
> [14] https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29
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