I’m very interested to see how this plays out. I worked for the Census Bureau for six years and who got counted in the decennial census was always very contentious. After every census the Bureau would be sued by several states who believed their population were undercounted (states always want to maximize their population to get the maximum number of congressional seats). The Census’ position always was that the Constitution states that they are to count the number of “persons” in each state without any other qualifiers. There is a historical basis for this since slaves were not citizens and they were to be counted (the 3/5 rule would be mute otherwise). Of course slaves were here legally. I suspect the legal folks at the Census Bureau are scrambling right now and I don’t know how they are going to officially react. We live in interesting times for sure.
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Re-Counting the Census
Wow. Can he do that? I guess he can. This may turn out to be a really big deal. How much might California’s population decrease if illegal aliens are discounted. A million? Three million? Maybe more? What if all of a sudden there are more people in Texas and Florida than New York and California? Not to mention all the illegals in Illinois, Virginia and New Jersey.
So, this is Trump swinging for the fences. I can’t imagine that the same federal judges that have challenged him on every executive order and every action he takes won’t write injunctions against this. They may slow him down but I think the Supreme Court may back him on this if he can make the case that illegal aliens are being counted in defiance of the intent of the census to count how many Americans need representation in each state.
I listened to a little bit of a podcast where James Carville was freaking out over this and he said that if the Democrats can get the White House and both houses of Congress in 2028, they should immediately declare DC and Puerto Rico states and add six seats to the Supreme Court in order to claw back control of the federal government. I took that to mean that he’s in a panic. Trump is fighting gerrymandered fire with fire. Massachusetts has been 100% Democrat for ages. The Supreme Court has said that gerrymandering is not within their purview. Since racial gerrymandering is no longer allowed, it’s only natural for the red states to copy states like Massachusetts and maximize the number of Republican house seats they can manufacture.
Trump is playing hardball and he’s doing it while he has the maximum clout he’ll ever have. Could it backfire? Not really. It could fail to get all he’s looking to get but it’s not like the Democrats could ever get any angrier than the already are. And this is the moment when the Democrats are as unpopular as they’ve ever been or maybe ever could be. So, this is the time to strike.
We are living in very turbulent times. We have elected Trump because the other Republicans were useless and dishonest. We’ve hired a pragmatist who doesn’t like losing. It certainly behooves us to back his play. Any Republican wringing his hands or whining about alienating the Democrats is not to be listened to. In fact, these are the people we must replace. Trump has a vision of how to defeat the leftist political movement. It entails restoring prosperity to the American middle-class and eliminating as much of the bureaucracy and the NGO’s that leech money and power from the federal government at the expense of the tax payers. He is dead right. Defunding USAID and other slush funds that feed the Left is brilliant. Recounting the census is also brilliant. He is doing everything he can to allow the real majority to get the government they want. If he keeps up like this, it won’t be enough to add him to Mt Rushmore. We’ll have to put him on the million-dollar bill (which will have to be added to circulation to allow for buying Starbucks coffee in a few years).
President Will Use Executive Action to Add Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census
This is interesting.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/11/trump-to-hold-news-conference-about-census-citizenship-question/
Now why does he think the Federal judges who have blocked his earlier actions won’t block this? I’m guessing that statement by Barr means there is a tactical advantage to using an executive order to move forward. Maybe he can get a quick review by the Supreme Court this way. Stay tuned.
After you’ve read enough sexbot articles on Drudge maybe switch to something interesting
Supreme Court Will Decide if the Census Can Ask You if You Are a Citizen
Here is the clearest indication of how bad things are. It takes the Supreme Court to say it’s alright for the U. S. Census to not count fraudulent census data. The census is constitutionally necessary function of the federal government, needed to measure the representation a state get in the House of Representatives and the regional Federal Courts are fighting the Trump Administration over getting an accurate count. The other advantage of this is it allows ICE to pick up anyone falsely claiming to be citizens. Falsifying census info is a federal felony. And it will probably put a damper on illegal aliens answering census information. That will hurt sanctuary states like California when it comes to federal funds. And that is good for the rest of us.