ET TU MALA FIDES, WILBUR?

Two Federal Judges in two different Federal Courts, one in California and the other in New York, have held trials about Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross's attempts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census and thereafter to conceal his reasons for doing so.

In both cases, the District Judges found that Mr. Ross acted in bad faith.  The Federal Judge in California went further than the Federal Judge in New York did and found a violation of the United States Constitution as well as misrepresentation.  In both cases, the evidence established that Mr. Ross's excuses were made "in bad faith" and that he knew all along that putting a citizenship question on the 2020 Census would result in a census undercount, particularly among Latinos who are after all unlikely to vote for Mr. Ross's president or party:

    Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted in “bad faith,” broke several laws and violated the constitutional underpinning of representative democracy when he added a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.  

[T]he 126-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco went further than a similar decision on Jan. 15 by Judge Jesse Furman in New York.

Fred Barbash, Wilbur Ross Broke Law, Violated Constitution in Census Decision, Judge Rules, Washington Post Online, posted Wednesday, March 6, 2019 (the Washington Post may require a subscription for access online).

Et tu mala fides, Wilbur?

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