Posted on 03/27/2018 8:33:11 AM PDT by Cheerio
The Trump administration announced Monday night it will be reinstating a citizenship question to the decennial census in 2020, prompting threats of lawsuits by prominent Democrats.
Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra separately announced they will file respective lawsuits to stop the citizenship question from being asked during the census.
Holders statement called the move by the Trump administration a direct attack on our representative democracy.
Becerra called the decision, illegal.
The Commerce Department, which oversees the census, issued a statement announcing the decision:
Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question on citizenship status will be reinstated to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire to help enforce the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Secretary Rosss decision follows a request by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to add a question on citizenship status to the 2020 decennial census.
Please click HERE to view the memorandum directing the Census Bureau to reinstate a question on citizenship to the 2020 decennial census.
The citizenship question will be the same as the one that is asked on the yearly American Community Survey (ACS). Citizenship questions have also been included on prior decennial censuses. Between 1820 and 1950, almost every decennial census asked a question on citizenship in some form. Today, surveys of sample populations, such as the Current Population Survey and the ACS, continue to ask a question on citizenship.
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Its a YUGE deal because it could affect the number of House seats and electoral college votes allocated to California.
Well then MAGA!!
#3 lol good one
I thought the purpose of a Census was to count how many citizens we had.
“Anyone have an address so we can send Eric a case of clown noses and shoes?”
You don’t need the noses. Holder’s beak is big enough he could hunt for truffles in France.
What argument could possibly be given against the question of citizenship?
I believe the bigger issue is representation.
I don’t believe that a suit could be successful, when the FOREMOST purpose of the Census is to determine levels of representation in the Federal Government.
This question has a critical and major bearing on that very question, how much representation should a state get in Washington.
If the decision has been made already at some level that representation should include people who are not actual citizens, then the lawsuit will succeed.
If not, it will fail. And, I believe, our country with it.
As the first and only Attorney General who was held in Contempt of Congress, HOW DOES THIS ASSHAT EVEN HOLD A LAW LICENSE ANY MORE????!?
Why isn’t Holder in prison yet?
Ah. That answers my question. However, because he is advising California on legal matters, it is time for Judicial Watch to sue Holder for practicing law without a license.
Perhaps another 3/5ths compromise is in our future.
The purpose is now to make you THINK it's a count of citizens. So far, so good.
The illegals are not allowed to vote. If they are allowed to be counted for the purpose of representation, that would mean the legal citizen’s vote in that district is weighted heavier then a single vote. ie. If there are 25 illegals and 75 citizens in a district, the district would represent 100 people. But only 75 can vote, that means each legal vote counts for 1.33 people. How is that fair if my vote only counts for 1? What happened to one man, one vote?
It’s a national census. Holder can file his suit in any jurisdiction where he’s licensed to practice law, or in the jurisdiction where he lives if he chooses to proceed pro se. You can bet other AGs will jump on board this bandwagon.
Let the state and Brown personally pony up for the victims. :)
Sadly, all of it. These people are so slippery and so knowledgable of every loophole that if Sessions does not button down every hatch they will easily slither away.
I know it seems like it is never going to happen, but I reckon that when it does happen it will make their heads spin.
Hillary right now cannot travel to a country that does not have an extradition policy in place.
If you look carefully into her eyes you will see the look of someone who knows they are caught and are just waiting for the jail door to close with a thud.
for millennia the purpose of census is to cunt citizens. Counting citizens IS setting representation. Our representatives are nor authorized to represent people who are here illegally. No setter what the La Reconquista crowd thinks.
ROTFLMAO cunt=count
I think you misspelled a word there.
The evidence indicates that Sessions appointed RosenWeasel to run the DoJ.
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