A partisan grab, in six steps

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[The New York Times](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0RCaHR0cDovL3d3dy5ueXRpbWVzLmNvbS8_dGU9MSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMTkwNjAzVwNueXRCCgAp0wv1XCsSD15SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) [The New York Times](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0RVaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvZGF2aWQtbGVvbmhhcmR0P3RlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) Monday, June 3, 2019 [NYTimes.com/David-Leonhardt »](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0RVaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvZGF2aWQtbGVvbmhhcmR0P3RlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) [Op-Ed Columnist] Op-Ed Columnist The Supreme Court may be on the verge of issuing its most nakedly partisan ruling since Bush v. Gore. Based on their questions during oral arguments this spring, the court’s five Republican-appointed justices seem open to allowing the Trump administration to add a new question — about citizenship status — to the 2020 census. Experts say that the question would reduce the participation of Latinos in the census, and, in turn, increase the political power of heavily white regions, which lean Republican. It’s important to understand that there is no larger conservative principle here. The court wouldn’t be ruling in favor of, say, a fetus’s right to exist or a business’s right to avoid regulation. Instead, a Republican-dominated court would be accepting obvious lies from the Trump administration in order to help the electoral fortunes of the Republican Party. It’s an alarming situation, both for the state of American democracy and the credibility of the Supreme Court. This morning, I want to explain how we got here: 1. Republican Senators, led by Mitch McConnell, stole a Supreme Court seat. When Antonin Scalia died, in early 2016, McConnell refused to consider any nominee from President Barack Obama. Once Donald Trump won the presidency and nominated Neil Gorsuch, the Senate confirmed him. (Trump later nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy, which didn’t affect the court’s partisan balance, because Ronald Reagan had chosen Kennedy.) McConnell’s [unprecedented move](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SGaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxNy8wNC8wNC9vcGluaW9uL2hvdy10by1lbmQtdGhlLXBvbGl0aWNpemF0aW9uLW9mLXRoZS1jb3VydHMuaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) flipped the court from a would-be 5-4 majority of Democratic appointees to a 5-4 majority of Republican appointees. On many major cases, the stolen seat now [decides the outcome](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0R7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOC8wNi8xMi9vcGluaW9uL3N1cHJlbWUtY291cnQtdm90aW5nLXJpZ2h0cy1vaGlvLmh0bWw_dGU9MSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMTkwNjAzVwNueXRCCgAp0wv1XCsSD15SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~). 2. Conservative operatives decided that adding a citizenship question to the census could help the Republican Party. Thomas Hofeller, a Republican strategist, did an analysis a few years ago concluding that citizenship questions would help Republicans win more elections. His analysis was supposed to remain secret, but his estranged daughter [discovered it](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNS8zMC91cy9jZW5zdXMtY2l0aXplbnNoaXAtcXVlc3Rpb24taG9mZWxsZXIuaHRtbD9hY3Rpb249Y2xpY2smbW9kdWxlPVRvcCUyMFN0b3JpZXMmcGd0eXBlPUhvbWVwYWdlJnRlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) after he died. “It’s difficult to produce a greater smoking gun than explicitly saying you are hoping to help the GOP by increasing white voting power,” the legal scholar [Richard Hasen](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0RraHR0cHM6Ly9zbGF0ZS5jb20vbmV3cy1hbmQtcG9saXRpY3MvMjAxOS8wNS9jZW5zdXMtbWVtby1zdXByZW1lLWNvdXJ0LWNvbnNlcnZhdGl2ZXMtd2hpdGUtdm90ZXJzLWFsaXRvLmh0bWxXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) wrote in Slate. 3. These conservative operatives persuaded the Trump administration to add the question to the census. In 2017, before he died, Hofeller urged Trump’s presidential transition team to add the question to the census and later helped draft a memo for the Justice Department making the same case. Steve Bannon, the alt-right leader, and Kris Kobach, an architect of voter-suppression efforts, also evidently supported adding the question. Wilbur Ross, President Trump’s commerce secretary, who oversees the census, eventually requested that the question be added. 4. The Trump administration lied about the reasons it was adding the citizenship question. Ross told Congress that the administration was adding the question to protect the voting rights of African-Americas. It was a ridiculous claim, especially given the other steps that the administration has taken to restrict the voting rights of minorities. In doing so, Ross was using an excuse that Hofeller had previously recommended, NPR’s [Hansi Lo Wang](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0R5aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy8yMDE5LzA1LzMwLzcyODIzMjIyMS9nb3AtcmVkaXN0cmljdGluZy1zdHJhdGVnaXN0LXBsYXllZC1yb2xlLWluLXB1c2gtZm9yLWNlbnN1cy1jaXRpemVuc2hpcC1xdWVzdGlvblcDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) has noted. “The Trump administration’s justification was mere pretext,” [Joshua Geltzer](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SPaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNS8zMS9vcGluaW9uL2NlbnN1cy1jaXRpemVuc2hpcC1xdWVzdGlvbi1zdXByZW1lLWNvdXJ0LXRyYXZlbC1iYW4uaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) of Georgetown Law wrote in The Times. “The Trump administration’s actual reason for the citizenship question is entrenching Republican political power.” 5. Federal courts, citing these lies, ruled against the administration. After several states and civil-rights groups filed lawsuits to block the citizenship question, three different federal judges [ruled against](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0RyaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wMS8xNi9vcGluaW9uLzIwMjAtY2Vuc3VzLXdpbGJ1ci1yb3NzLmh0bWw_dGU9MSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMTkwNjAzVwNueXRCCgAp0wv1XCsSD15SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) the administration. The judges said Ross had misled both Congress and the public about the question’s origins, violating federal law. 6. The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal, and the five conservatives signaled during oral arguments that they may be willing to accept the administration’s lies. The history here is so damning, because it shows that the Trump administration has “discriminatory intent” against certain ethnic groups — which should be enough to get the citizenship question thrown out. Yet at the oral argument, the five Republican-appointed justices seemed eager to wish away the evidence and accept the Trump administration’s clearly false rationale. “The conservative justices are still hell-bent on coming up with legitimate reasons to explain the addition of the question,” [Leah Litman](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0R1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGF0aW1lcy5jb20vb3Bpbmlvbi9vcC1lZC9sYS1vZS1saXRtYW4tY2Vuc3VzLXF1ZXN0aW9uLXN1cHJlbWUtY291cnQtdHJ1bXAtcmVwdWJsaWNhbi0yMDE5MDYwMy1zdG9yeS5odG1sVwNueXRCCgAp0wv1XCsSD15SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~), a law professor at University of California, Irvine, wrote in The Los Angeles Times. The questions that justices ask during oral arguments aren’t always an accurate guide to their ruling. It’s still possible that Chief Justice John Roberts, or one of his four fellow conservative justices, will decide to prioritize something other than partisan power. We should know by late June, when the court’s term is scheduled to end. 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He routinely gets attacked for it. ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SPaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMi9vcGluaW9uL3RpYW5hbm1lbi1zcXVhcmUtY2hpbmEuaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWltZyZubF9hcnQ9NyZ0ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA [After Tiananmen, China Conquers History Itself](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SUaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMi9vcGluaW9uL3RpYW5hbm1lbi1zcXVhcmUtY2hpbmEuaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWhlYWRsaW5lJm5sX2FydD03JnRlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) By LOUISA LIM Young people question the value of knowledge, a victory for Beijing 30 years after the crackdown on student protests. ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SJaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMy9vcGluaW9uL21hZHVyby12ZW5lenVlbGEuaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWltZyZubF9hcnQ9OCZ0ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA [One Way to Bring Down Maduro and His Cronies: Indictments](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SOaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMy9vcGluaW9uL21hZHVyby12ZW5lenVlbGEuaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWhlYWRsaW5lJm5sX2FydD04JnRlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) By FERNANDO CUTZ Legal cases would be a significant step in the efforts to remove the Venezuelan regime. ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SSaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9zaG9vdGluZy1sYXdzLWd1bnMuaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWltZyZubF9hcnQ9OSZ0ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA [A Gun Killed My Son. So Why Do I Want to Own One?](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SXaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9zaG9vdGluZy1sYXdzLWd1bnMuaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWhlYWRsaW5lJm5sX2FydD05JnRlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) By GREGORY GIBSON While fighting for stricter gun laws, I was always told I didn’t understand. Maybe now I do. ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS90aWFuYW5tZW4tcHJvdGVzdHMtY2hpbmEtd2FuZy1kYW4uaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWltZyZubF9hcnQ9MTAmdGU9MSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMTkwNjAzVwNueXRCCgAp0wv1XCsSD15SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~ [What I Learned Leading the Tiananmen Protests](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS90aWFuYW5tZW4tcHJvdGVzdHMtY2hpbmEtd2FuZy1kYW4uaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWhlYWRsaW5lJm5sX2FydD0xMCZ0ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) By WANG DAN I paid a hefty price for the demonstrations three decades ago. So did China. ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SZaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS93b3JsZHMtb2xkZXN0LW1pbGxlbm5pYWwuaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWltZyZubF9hcnQ9MTEmdGU9MSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMTkwNjAzVwNueXRCCgAp0wv1XCsSD15SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~ [I Am the World’s Oldest Millennial](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SeaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS93b3JsZHMtb2xkZXN0LW1pbGxlbm5pYWwuaHRtbD9lbV9wb3M9c21hbGwmcmVmPWhlYWRsaW5lJm5sX2FydD0xMSZ0ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) By KAITLYN GREENIDGE It’s a burden one of us has to bear, and I am sorry to report that I have realized it is me. ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9tdXNpYy1lY29ub21pY3MtYWxhbi1rcnVlZ2VyLmh0bWw_ZW1fcG9zPXNtYWxsJnJlZj1pbWcmbmxfYXJ0PTEyJnRlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ [The Economics of Rihanna’s Superstardom](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9tdXNpYy1lY29ub21pY3MtYWxhbi1rcnVlZ2VyLmh0bWw_ZW1fcG9zPXNtYWxsJnJlZj1oZWFkbGluZSZubF9hcnQ9MTImdGU9MSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMTkwNjAzVwNueXRCCgAp0wv1XCsSD15SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) By ALAN B. KRUEGER The music industry can tell us a lot about our winner-take-all economy. ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SVaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMi9vcGluaW9uL2NoaW5hLXRpYW5hbm1lbi1hbm5pdmVyc2FyeS5odG1sP2VtX3Bvcz1zbWFsbCZyZWY9aW1nJm5sX2FydD0xMyZ0ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA [China Cannot Erase the Truth of Tiananmen](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SaaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMi9vcGluaW9uL2NoaW5hLXRpYW5hbm1lbi1hbm5pdmVyc2FyeS5odG1sP2VtX3Bvcz1zbWFsbCZyZWY9aGVhZGxpbmUmbmxfYXJ0PTEzJnRlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Communist government wants to control the future by suppressing the past. ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SeaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMi9vcGluaW9uL2xldHRlcnMvYXV0b3dvcmtlci1sb3Jkc3Rvd24tb2hpby1nbS5odG1sP2VtX3Bvcz1zbWFsbCZyZWY9aW1nJm5sX2FydD0xNCZ0ZT0xJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTA2MDNXA255dEIKACnTC_VcKxIPXlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA [A Life Upended by a G.M. Plant Closing](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRe15DTP0SjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wMi9vcGluaW9uL2xldHRlcnMvYXV0b3dvcmtlci1sb3Jkc3Rvd24tb2hpby1nbS5odG1sP2VtX3Bvcz1zbWFsbCZyZWY9aGVhZGxpbmUmbmxfYXJ0PTE0JnRlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MDYwM1cDbnl0QgoAKdML9VwrEg9eUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) Readers react to a profile of Rick Marsh, who has lost confidence in the political system after losing his auto manufacturing job. 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