You know it is time for a housecleaning when different agencies are competing to show how compromised they are by rushing to criticize a court decision that calls out the politicization of the census.
Kelly Laco, interesting carrier path.
Communications intern for RNC, then intern for some member of parliament in the UK, then intern for BP lubricants, then at AEI, then at the US House of Rep, then has been very quickly being moved up at DOJ in the past under 2 years.
Guess it pays to be willing to be a hack.
As the judge said, this is a pretext. The citizenship question has nothing to do with voting rights. It’s about trying to reduce the population of states with large numbers of non-citizen immigrants (like California) for purposes of representation in Congress.
There is a legal process to adding a question to the Census, doing it responsibly to make sure it doesn’t impact the questionnaire or response rate. And then there is shoving a question onto the Census in the hope that it lowers the count in areas that won’t vote for your party, which is illegal. At least so far…we’ll see if the SC overturns it, but to do that they will have to ignore precedent and an airtight decision based very firmly in the law that points out it was blatant cheating.
Lot of lies to unpack in that statement:
“reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census in response to the Department of Justice’s request for better citizenship data, to protect voters against racial discrimination.” (Judge ruled that this was pretextual – and the timeline for this “request” did not line up with when the decision was made.)
Not only has the government asked a citizenship question in the census for most of the last 200 years, (wrong – it hasn’t been part of the decennial survey since prior to WWII. It’s only been part of the American Community Survey over the last 60 years) 41 million households have already answered it on the American Community Survey since 2005. (Different group of people answer this survey. Apples/oranges)
I’m disappointed “my” President is a Russian asset. I guess we’ll both have to struggle along.
If “41 million households have already answered [the citizenship question] on the American Community Survey since 2005” then the DoJ already has more than enough “citizenship data, to protect voters against racial discrimination.” What it doesn’t have is sufficient data to further gerrymander and manipulate the election process.
What a load of horse manure. The Constitution clearly requires a decennial count of “persons,” not “citizens.” Sure hope this ruling stands. And before I get jumped on, the “3/5ths Compromise” is no longer operative.
No.
People are legally entitled to tell the government what to do, and government has the legal obligation to do it.
Let’s talk about background checks for gun purchases.
WHO in the DOJ?
Yes, and it goes farther than just Congressional districting. The Census info also impacts funding for services and for schools, and zeroing out non-citizens would harm both citizens and non-citizens alike.
I saw this news earlier on another site, and I am relieved, and hope it will stand, but I am also concerned that attempts such as this are of a broader piece that include re-interpreteting – or even rescinding, as Trump has previously said – the 14th Amendment guarantees of equal protections.
Also, immigration hawks are hard at work on “reform” proposals that could create a new underclass of non-citizens who, while they might be permitted to work in this country while natigating the mazelike immigration process, would remain vulnerable to deportation.