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Chief justice john roberts argued to the fact that federal judges have no license to reallocate political power between the two major parties with no grant of authority in the constitution. in other words, they cant get involved in a partisan political matter. the only thing confusing about that decision, whether you support it or not, whether it benefits democrats in one period or republicans in another period. they often come in the middle to resolve political disputes. >> absolutely. i though...

Mechanisms to avoid having to get to the merits of how that power is taken. with the census question, theyre able to somewhat avoid the merits by utilizing this question of the record needs to be more fully developed but at the same time, interesting to see what roberts is doing. its definitely a slight at the trump administration. you can sense a sense of distaste in terms of how controversial and how questionable ross statements have been. so i think you could read that in there. >> yeah, you ...

Is nothing this president will not do to break up your family, cage your children, and every seer existence by weaponizing the census. >> trace: so when you see congress getting involved in this, you see the 2020 candidates using this as one of their platforms, what do you make of that as to how it plays into the rest of the argument? >> well, certainly. this is part of a question here, the role of congress. they can write the census questions if it wants, but in fact, delegated to the congress,...

Marshall will tell us when the court next meets. . >> two big decisions this week. jergerrymandering and the other case as well involving the census question, too. pete williams, well check back in with you. thank you much. appreciate it. and whats happening on the campaign trail. two days from now you will see the first democratic debate on msnbc. one of the most buzzed about candidates of the primary, pete buttigieg still plans to be there. typically this wouldnt even be a question. but he s...

To an unconfirmed white house official and also i think what the sticking point will be going forward is does president trump have a problem when hes trying to name a perm innocent dhs secretary are they okay with that arrangement and why the reason is very much still in >> im watching the supreme court. there is less than two weeks left in the term and 24 big opinions left including real politically charged ones. gerrymandering, census question, power of federal agencies. i think this is the fi...

>> shannon: one house wont turn over to house democrats documents about the citizens question on next years census. >> the house oversight committee voted to send a contempt resolution for attorney general william barr and secretary of commerce wilbur ross to the full house after the administration asserted executive privilege over census records. >> this begs the question, what is being hidden? >> when we rush to hold people in contempt, it has a chilling effect on anybody wanted to go the extr...

>> wheres your first priority in terms of subpoenas? because theres a political downside of just flooding the house with them and voters are frustrated nothing is getting done and this may seem like its a political attack against the president. >> thats one of my major concerns. i dont want to, our committee to come up looking like that because i think it takes away from our integrity. as to your question, i want to look at things like the census. keep in mind that we have a census, a the admini...

Question with steve bannon. now, faced with that inconvenient truth, the trump administration asked the supreme court to step in and block a lower courts order. the court came through from trump big time. and the order was written by neil gorsuch. the case will go forward, but without wilber ross. this is about far more. it is about attempts to give republicans an artificial edge in redirecting by undercounting undocumented immigrants in the consensus. its a pattern were seeing in the midterms a...

Will it just be a rain event? rob: halloween costume, come on, janice. >> hopefully we will rebound for halloween. i grew up in canada where you had to buy your costumes two times bigger. rob: a new ruling ahead of 20/20 citizenship census question, supreme court shielding wilbur ross from testifying to a group of 18 states suing the trump administration for re-adding the question with asks is this person a citizen of the united states. the question was added for the first time since 1950. the t...

>> for the first time, same-sex married couples will be counted. this includes couple who may live where the relationship is not recognized. >> reporter: testimonials from the lbgt representative talk about using it for maximum funding for programs they care most about, meaning the conservatives who dont participate could lose ground on key issue. >> its one of the things our founding fathers asked us to do. we ought to do it. >> reporter: if you didnt answer the census question on paper get rea...