"Later, asked whether that meant Trump felt he was above the law, McEnany took offense.President Trump still "stands beside the posture" he made on absolute immunity that was rejected by the Supreme Court on Thursday, his press secretary said.At a Thursday press briefing, McEnany was asked how the President feels about the justices he appointed and their votes that the President is not immune from a subpoena for his financial documents from a New York prosecutor. They wrote separately to say the decision violated a federal law, the Administrative Procedure Act that regulates how agencies establish their rules.Please enable JavaScript for a better experience.Justice Thomas joined in part by Gorsuch and Kavanaugh would have allowed the citizenship question on the census.Saenz said Ross "now must try, in very short order, to fix his mess. "“We are going to do everything in our power to get the documents that we need. “This was apparently an effort by Mr. Ross even before he got into office … one of the first things he did was to start working on this citizenship question even though he claimed the request was coming from DOJ.”This comes after the Supreme Court ruled that there was sufficient reason for concern about why the Department of Commerce wanted to add the question, and insufficient explanation.Several Democratic presidential candidates weighed in on Thursday afternoon following the SCOTUS decision to block the citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census for now:He said his committee will continue to work on its investigation.Rep. It is possible to re-watch judgment hand-downs on this site. Elijah Cummings, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who has led an investigation into how a question about citizenship ended up on the U.S. Census, told reporters he was so happy that the court ruled the way it did today.
Below you will find the latest judgment(s) handed down by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that federal law protects gay and transgender employees from job discrimination, giving millions new civil rights. It is far from clear that Ross, accomplished prevaricator that he is, can put forward a legitimate explanation for his biased actions.Trump said in the tweet that he's asked lawyers if they could delay the census.Justice Stephen Breyer, joined in part by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, agreed that the Commerce Secretary provided a “pretextual reason” for adding the question. We will be immediately pursuing that claim in Maryland federal District Court and in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, confident that the increasingly clear picture of conspired racial discrimination will prevail in removing any doubt about the impropriety of the late-added citizenship query.”President Trump took to Twitter saying it "seems totally ridiculous" that a question about citizenship was blocked from appearing on the census. This is the Supreme Court of Canada’s home page. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito filed dissenting opinions. There are also links to: hearings (today, scheduled, and archived) and to the latest judgments. © 2020 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. In one of the cases, the court ruled that House subpoenas of Trump’s financial records will remain blocked, sending the controversial case back down to the lower court for further review.Asked about the President’s morning tweets where he appeared to be unhappy with the decision, McEnany said Trump, “was making a general point about deference on the principal of absolute immunity.”“Also there was a note in the Roberts opinion that in the New York state case basically the grand jury said that they were prohibited from arbitrary fishing expeditions and initiating investigations out of malice or intent to harass,” she continued.
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