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.
Holder’s 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 Ross’s 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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Isn't he still in Contempt of Congress? IIRC, he flipped them the big finger.
See this "bird" here, Eric the Red? Go fly your commie fantasies on it.
The difference between Leftists and Conservatives is that conservatives create and follow the law so as to maintain a civil society. The leftist create and use the law so as to move their agenda forward, whch entails militating against their political opponents, ie, creating laws that criminalizes normal, everyday behavior.
Some time back I started doing family research an found on at least Census sheet containing a column for citizenship.This is from,IIRC,the 1920 Census.
When you are over the target,.....
The liberal traitors (Demoncrats) fear that even a moron will realize that California, NY..... have many illegal voters when the numbers just don't add up....
The constitutional purpose of the census is to count citizens, and the State in which they reside. Everything else is mush.
One year I got the American Community Survey.
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I did, too, and somehow it got lost in the mail. After 2-3 attempts, the pests went away.
Good on you.
I bet they had clip boards.
One walked all around my property ( lookin in windows ) makin notes on something.
I asked her to leave and send me the bill for the hundred dollar fine as I got nothin for ya.
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