The Court’s decision tells us that a conservative majority would rather see the case go away quickly than confront hard questions about executive power and Congress’s role.
President Trump’s insistence that a citizenship question be included in the census has sown chaos and uncertainty for the courts, the public, and members of his own Administration.
Newly surfaced evidence supporting the idea that there was a discriminatory motive behind the addition may be too blatant for the Supreme Court to ignore.