Desperation exposes new liberal norm regarding the courts

Federal judge says census citizenship question merits more consideration in light of new evidence

A federal district judge in Maryland on Wednesday ruled that new evidence in the case of a census citizenship question merits more consideration, opening the possibility that the question could come before the Supreme Court again even after it rules as expected this month.

Civil rights groups who had sued the government over its addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census had asked U.S. District Court Judge George J. Hazel to reconsider his ruling on whether the government was guilty of conspiracy and intent to discriminate after new evidence in the case emerged last month.

Now there are few points to make here:

• The first is that this new information would not change this Judge's ruling. George J. Hazel (an Obama appointee) had already ruled against the Administration on the question of the census question. This new information would certainly "not" convince him differently. 
• Secondly, the USSC has not ultimately ruled on the merits of this case, so Hazel doesn't even know what the result of the appeal even is. Why ask for a do over of something that isn't yet settled?
• Lastly, this new information was already presented to the USSC as a supplement to the arguments. What good does reconsidering something at a district court level, when the USSC is already considering the new information?

This seems to be an ongoing issue with liberal Judges (and especially Obama Judges) since Trump has become President. Which is to say that these District Court Judges and certain District Appeals Courts seem to act as if they work on equal footing with the USSC, and do not see themselves as being bound by any USSC precedent that they don't agree with themselves. Again and again, District Judges have ignored black and white laws, and obvious judicial precedents to simply rule against the President for what almost appears to be "spite" or "resistance". They may see these actions as justified opposition to the President, but they are actually actions that go against Judicial norms, and ultimately disrespect the constitutional authority of the USSC. 

The fact that a District Judge would decide to effectively weigh in and suggest that the upcoming ruling from the USSC on this subject should be immediately reconsidered (if it does not correspond with his personal beliefs) seems beyond arrogant. The legal buck stops at the USSC. This is not a question of trying to get the USSC to possibly reconsider rulings and precedents from decades ago based on changing facts. This would be a flat out attempt to have a District Judge effectively "overrule" a just provided USSC decision, likely in order to attempt to delay the implementation of that particular high court decision (that the Judge in question does not agree with).

So how about this as a fundamental legal and constitutional quandary. The USSC rules (as expected) that the Citizenship question can be added to the 2020 Census, and then a District Court Judge issues another injunction against the Federal Government effectively telling them not to follow that decision, because he wants to restart the process with what he believes are "new" facts (even though those facts were introduced in the USSC proceedings)? 

Now, prior to 2016, no District Judge in the country would ever do something so blatantly arrogant an blatantly constitutionally wrong. A bigger part of the quandary is that the right District Judge in the right Circuit Court could conceivably have his decision upheld by the Appeals Court (as a matter of spite or resistance to the President) only to have the exact same case placed back at the High Court for them to "reconsider" because the lower courts were not happy.

But there is no "appeal" of a USSC decision. No matter how you try to go about it.

The President and his executive branch would almost certainly ignore a lower court injunction in favor of the USSC overriding decision and move forward with the Census question. No doubt this would lead to kicking and screaming across the board over what many would consider a blatant "constitutional crisis" being pushed forward by the President.  But in fact the real constitutional crisis is already happening on the Judicial level, being pushed forward by angry Obama Judges who seem to have issues following black and white laws or Judicial precedents that they don't personally like.

It was just a matter of time before you move from ignoring USSC precedent to coming up with creative ways to ignore the end result decisions of the USSC in real time. In this case, we see the desperation of an Obama District Judge, who is effectively making preemptive attempts to "overrule" a yet to be made Supreme Court decision if it doesn't go his way.