It’s too early for fermented berries.
I know, they’re down to eating the vinca minor and the euonymus.
Boy, someone’s sure antsy to start rigging the elections process with further gerrymandering and to find out how many Dem seats they can manage to eliminate and then get the packed partisan neofascist SCOTUS to rubber-stamp.
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Everything former guy touched should be trusted no further than one could push a train. Therefore, Census Bureau should honestly do a comprehensive review of the whole Census, to make sure their Constitutional duty to perform an accurate count of the whole number of living persons, was followed by the former guys at all times in every way. If it takes another year, then boo tucking fad Ohio RepubliQan.
Somebody please tell the Ohio Attorney General you can’t make shit out of shinola. As they say in winery. It’s not ready until iot is ready!
The census is a federal issue, how does Ohio as a state have standing to force the census to release data that it cannot in good faith verify?
I am confused by this take from the article, “However, passing that bill would not entirely moot out Ohio’s case. Yost is also alleging that the Census Bureau has violated federal administrative law in how it’s gone about postponing the release date.”
OK, I have answered my own question here, there is this article which says that former POTUS Trump was sued more than any POTUS in history.
And they won 79% of the time. So with 150 appointments to the bench, we should expect GOP state AG’s to do the same to the Biden administration, and hope to count of the GOP stacking the court to win victories.
There’s no remedy at all. No court can give Ohio what it wants, even if it agreed 100% with Ohio’s claims. If the Census Bureau doesn’t approve and release numbers by March 31, Ohio will be clutching air.
Kudos to all Census Bureau employees involved in running the clock out before Trumpp could manage an official release of his sabotaged numbers.
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This is the real answer. The administration has a constitutional duty to accurately count all persons and we know from court cases that there were multiple attempts to do NOT that. If Trump would have upheld his responsibility to literally just count people, Ohio could have already started gerrymandering.
This is all BULLSHIT ! The Census was deliberately fucked up by Trump and the GOP. Biden should shitcan the whole thing and start over. Reapportionment should not occur until the new census is done - which means everything is static until 2024 at the earliest.
To be fair, the courts generally don’t care that we’re in a global health emergency. But the federal judiciary could give zero shits about what a state put into its constitution as it pertains to federal functions. Ohio could pass a constitutional amendment moving the date of the presidential inauguration if it wanted too, but no one would pretend that such a thing has merit to the federal government.
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