the SCOTUS refused to hear the case. Trump is not disobeying them. Geez, do you ever tell the truth about anything?
Department of Commerce v. New York - SCOTUSblog
Of course they heard the case, and issued a 5-4 decision. Your ignorance led you to wrongly accuse someone of lying.
That's why Trump loves the uneducated.
Did you even bother to read what you posted?
", but the district court was warranted in remanding the case back to the agency where the evidence tells a story that does not match the secretary’s explanation for his decision."
exactly what do you think that means?
I think it means you're confused. You maintained the USSC refused to hear the case. They heard it, and they issued a 5-4 decision. From my link:
Jun 27 2019 Adjudged to be AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, and case REMANDED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court with respect to Parts I and II, and the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts III, IV–B, and IV–C, in which Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined; with respect to Part IV–A, in which Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined; and with respect to Part V, in which Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Breyer, J.,
filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Alito, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Adjudged to be AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, and case REMANDED means they heard the case. If they had refused to hear it, they would not have issued a Writ of Certiorari. The oral arguments at the time they heard the case were in all the papers. I'm surprised you missed it.
The SCOTUS agreed that states had a basis to claim damages, but that saying that illegals or 3rd parties won't respond is a valid reason to remove the citizenship question isn't a valid reason. Pg 10 paragraph 2:
The Government contends, however, that any harm to respondents is not fairly traceable to the Secretary’s deci-sion, because such harm depends on the independent action of third parties choosing to violate their legal duty to respond to the census. The chain of causation is made even more tenuous, the Government argues, by the fact that such intervening, unlawful third-party action would be motivated by unfounded fears that the Federal Gov-ernment will itself break the law by using noncitizens’ answers against them for law enforcement purposes. The Government invokes our steady refusal to “endorse stand-ing theories that rest on speculation about the decisions of independent actors,” Clapperv. Amnesty Int’l USA, 568 U. S. 398, 414 (2013), particularly speculation aboutfuture unlawful conduct, Los Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U. S. 95, 105 (1983).
But we are satisfied that, in these circumstances, re-spondents have met their burden of showing that third parties will likely react in predictable ways to the citizen-ship question, even if they do so unlawfully and despite the requirement that the Government keep individual answers confidential. The evidence at trial established that noncitizen households have historically responded to the census at lower rates than other groups, and the Dis-trict Court did not clearly err in crediting the Census Bureau’s theory that the discrepancy is likely attributable at least in part to noncitizens’ reluctance to answer a citizenship question. Respondents’ theory of standing Cite as: 588 U. S. ____ (2019) 11 Opinion of the Courtthus does not rest on mere speculation about the decisions of third parties; it relies instead on the predictable effect of Government action on the decisions of third parties. Cf.Bennett v. Spear, 520 U. S. 154, 169–170 (1997); Davis, 554 U. S., at 734–735. Because Article III “requires no more than de facto causality,” Block v. Meese, 793 F. 2d 1303, 1309 (CADC 1986) (Scalia, J.), traceability is satis-fied here. We may therefore consider the merits of re-spondents’ claims, at least as far as the Constitution is concerned.
This is double-speak. It says that independent action by illegals who will refuse to respond to the census is not a valid reason to demand that the citizenship question stay off the census. Then it goes back on this by saying it is highly predictable that illegals won't fill out a census....so that's a good enough reason not to put the question on the form. Total horseshit. This is their opinion....still they sent this back to the Commerce Dept to decide what they're going to do.