Didn’t even move the needle…
Since there is no significant voter fraud, their purported reason for the census question isn’t legitimate. I have to think it’s about fear and forcing immigrants, legal or otherwise, further into the shadows. They haven’t even properly vetted this idea, rushing it out instead, damn the consequences.
Water is wet.
The sun rises in the east.
GOP Attorneys General Support Citizenship Question On Census.
Why should they care whether the residents of their states are treated fairly? That’s not their brand.
(And I was thinking: the AP, as usual, really doesn’t get it. Citizens and legal residents with non-anglo names aren’t just worried that ICE will come after their relatives, they’re worried that ICE will come after them. We’ve already seen in the Kobach trial that the nutters consider non-anglo names prima facie evidence of noncitizen/undocumented status.)
Hell, they’d restrict the census to white, property-owning males over 55 if they could, and launch PR campaigns in an attempt to convince the voters that it was right, proper and patriotic. We’re not talking about rennaisance men or men of the enlightenment here. There’s nothing the plain folk like more than having the minions of plutocrats tell them how virtuous they are for willingly allowing themselves to be politically under-represented.
Like the GOP wants any federal money going ANYWHERE
besides their donor’s pockets …
If it makes it on to the form, I’ll leave it blank.
“We always are better off having a more accurate count of citizens versus non-citizens. I see no downside in this,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, vice chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association.
It would be fun to see how many times it would take asking the simple follow up “why?” to have Paxton say something truly vile.
He [Ross] said the question was needed in part to help the government enforce
the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that was intended to protect the
political representation of minority groups.
Yet not a single Republican attorney general has sued — not even from states with large immigrant populations that stand to lose if a census undercount of immigrants affects the allotment of U.S.
“Surprise, surprise, surprise.”
— Gomer Pyle, 1962
Of course they do.
True that. One of the true highlights of the trial was this exchange between Jesse Richman, a hack political scientist whose surveys became the basis for Kobach’s claims of widespread voter fraud, and ACLU attorney Dale Ho:
Just hypothetically, Ho wanted to know, would Richman consider “Carlos Murguia” to be a foreign name?
Richman: “Probably.”
Ho: “Probably what?”
Richman: “Probably would code it as foreign.”
Ho: “Are you aware that Carlos Murguia is a United States District Court Judge who sits in this courthouse?”
Richman: “I am not.”
Good times.
I can all but guarantee that if nobody else does the ACLU will file a suit about this.
He could have just stopped at ’ aware ’ …
Good times indeed. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I love it that they are all hoist on their own petard on the right.
Of course they do. They’re all shysters.
Maybe I’m missing something but they already ask you where you were born. That in and of itself says whether or not you are a U.S. citizen at birth. Redundancy is what they are going for. Once you say you are a naturalized citizen, that too answers the question without asking it.
So, your whole purpose is to lower the count and cause certain communities to lose representation and funds. Ah, the tangled web we weave. Another reason to GOTV in November 2018, good practice to really clean up the swamp.
Can’t wait for them to ask me what country my ancestors come from when I check off the ‘Black’ on the form. I’m going to love writing down…“Africa is a continent NOT a country.”
As you know Louis Leakey discovered in his archaeological digs that humans evolved in Africa. Would I confuse the census takers by changing my race to black from white after all these years?
Go ahead and play your black card. They could use a little spicing up right about now. 