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Citizen question is not on the census they may be fearful and refuse to even, you know, answer the door for a census taker to take those questionnaires in the first place. >> what is the likelihood the trump administration can make headway with this after the supreme court decision? >> i think its an uphill battle. first of all its a timing issue. they made representations that they have to have this, you know, final draft, they have to get it out by october. so that gives them only a few months...

Wanted the question added to, get this, better enforce the voting rights act. yes you heard that right. the trump administration under jeff sessions was so intent on maximally enforcing that voting rights act, they needed the citizenship question. that is what they tried to sell, anyway. the real story is that with input from steve bannon and kris kobach, and at the behest of wilbur ross, the doj concocted a pretext to cover up what documents suggest is the true motivation, to reduce levels of r...

We were talking in the break, that a lot of the demonstrators werent even born then. >> right. i was there during the handover. it was a very sad day. this is what people feared. for hong kong to prosper, all china needed was a light hand. but its treated these people like criminals and they are frustrated. middle class and upper class people say to their children, go to school in america, canada, britt britain, australia. lot of these people have no place to turn. the violence is really sad bec...

Lied about the origins of that, even lied to congress. they found the administration stated reasons were just b.s., pretext. in fact, roberts quoted another judge when he wrote the courts members, quote, are not required to exhibit a naive from which other citizens are free. we see what you are doing. we know what you are trying to do. you lied about it too flagrantly for us to ignore. though, the discovery so far in the case has turned up documents discovering the racial motivations involved. b...

Communities in blue states. it would take federal funding away from them if that were to happen. the possibility of adding that question appears to have been driven by people in the administration such as steve bannon and chris kobach. its worth remembering that wilbur ross lied about the origins of that and even lied about it to congress. in his decision, chief justice john roberts sided with the courts four liberals that find the stated reasons to add a citizenship question were bs. pretext. i...

Our brief that the two were entirely unrelated. so its good that justice roberts found it to be contrived. he called it a pretext. he didnt say what it was a pretext for, but he called it a pretext. >> interesting, he also called it fake news. i have a couple questions about this. upholding partisan gerrymandering, i wasnt surprised because he struck down part of the voting rights act and didnt seem to be very much a friend of it. what are the implications of this? she wrote, of all the times to...

Is taking us back, a huge step, stripping away one of those core constitutional safeguards. >> as you look ahead to immigration and other big decisions, what does it tell you about the way that they approach these issues. >> theyre going to hide behind this cloak of were the court, were above it all, we dont get involved in politics. while thats been to a certain degree, a feature of a conservative of a conservative court -- >> quaint or anachronistic, what do you think about that? >> its a faca...

Maryland. to the extent that president trump has been blustering and talking about wanting to go back to present more information to the supreme court, the more information that would come before the supreme court is proof that this was a racially discriminatory pretext. >> he even thinks hes going to delay the census. i dont have time to talk to you about this florida poll talks. can you come back? i want to talk to you about the florida poll tax that was filed last night. sherrilyn ifill, than...

Chief justice roberts. he acknowledged it as a problem but said the courts cant do anything about it. how do you reconcile that? >> yeah, its incredibly defeatist, as justice kagan says. its sad. look, were not talking about. i dont like to rank constitutional rights, but were talking about the scaffolding of the entire political system. the use of gerrymandering to disenfranchise or dilute votes in the most rank way absolutely deprives citizens of the franchise and of the one person, one vote p...

Today, "i have asked the lawyers if they can delay the census, no matter how long, if the protect is given information to make a final and decisive decision on this very critical matter." im not sure if he wrote that, but anyway, it came from his twitter feed. the census, its in the constitution. can he delay it? >> can he delay it? well, it has to be done by -- on 2020. you know, who knows if he can try to, you know, play hurry up and -- after delaying it. but they certainly told the court agai...