Even If You Believe There Should Be A Citizenship Question On The Census, This Is Wrong…

If Trump’s lies upon lies, which even the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court agrees are lies, end up somehow having no consequences, then probably nothing ever will…

We usually issue updates to the stories we publish when any important new developments arise. But when the Commerce and Justice Department said they were dropping the idea of adding a citizenship question from the 2020 Census, after the Court ruled they’d lied about the reason for putting it on, we thought to ourselves “not so fast”. And we didn’t update, despite numerous headlines in major publications declaring the question kaput. Because we didn’t think that outcome would sit well with the President, and he wouldn’t care that the Supreme Court had just had the last word. And that’s just what happened.

Here’s a clip of Trump talking about his thinking over the weekend (click on the photo to play):

Actually, the 5–4 decision a little over a week ago, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority…