I thought it was possible to do this…essentially conduct a new census in 2021. I’m sure the GOP would fight it. But I hope Biden is prepared to tell Republicans to stuff it on this issue. And, I hope he’s prepared to sign the Executive Order(s) on Day 1 reversing all the orders signed by Trump.
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LOL. I like the way you think. 
Also agree the scare mongering is in high gear. It will get worse the closer to the election we get so we might as well get use to ignoring it now.
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I thought I once learned that a nineteenth century census was so badly done they scrapped it and started over, but I couldn’t find confirmation on Wikipedia.
Does anyone know if there is precedent for declaring one census inadequate for apportionment and just doing it over?
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Just keeping his “American Carnage” going as he continues burning it down. Will anything be left when he is escorted out?
There is no question in my mind that the next Congress will have to order a new census be conducted ASAP.
ETTD, indeed.
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We have a new definition for ‘arbitrary and capricious’ conduct by an administration who no longer bothers with fake reasons for their partisan conduct.
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Have our reps threaten to hold them accountable. That’s stopped everything cold at this point when uttered, so…oh, wait.
What, has Season 2 of the COVID-19 and Self-Pity Follies already been cancelled? Does that mean we’ve once again, strongly, powerfully, and beautifully, solved the virus problem?
N.b.: 4 more days until we get to see the plan for TrumpCare!
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Vote him out and as many of the Rs as possible. Pass a law that Representatives and Senators are by oath required to “represent” every living person in their district. You know those people who pay taxes at grocery stores and gas pumps. The ones who use the roads and other common utilities. Taxation without representation, how can Rs support that? Run another census. Constitution only says no more then 10 years between, can be less. Pass another law that districts will be determined by a neutral process and fair and equal representation.
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I wonder if Biden may, eventually, be able to intervene after the fact. If the count was seriously faulty, wouldn’t there be justification for a re-count? I don’t think one has ever been done, but it would be hard for the GOP to claim it was unconstitutional to do so given Trump’s actions, not to mention the real confounding element of the pandemic.
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More likely being in Texas raising money and claiming Democrats are evil prevented him from lying to the American people.
By the way shortchanging Texas in the census is only going to kill off more of his white supporters as rural and small town hospitals continue to close .
But as dt would say “it is what it is”.
This policy will not legally succeed and they know it. Trump and his anti-immigrant ilk hope this will produce an undercount because households will be reluctant to include any undocumented persons.
IMHO, that’s it in a nutshell. Pretty sick administration. 
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Seeing that picture in the header made me wonder, anyone heard anything about old Wilbur?
Update: I guess he is out of the hospital.
It’s not up to Trump. If the House doesn’t accept the Census as valid, they can throw it in the trash can and do the 2022 Apportionment based on other sources of data by a simple majority vote. This all much ado about nothing. The Census gets delivered to the Clerk of the House for the new Congress the first week of January. The House can hold it back from the States well into 2021 and well after Trump is gone.
The Speaker can also order the Census Bureau to do a “do-over” to fix the mess Trump’s political appointees have created. The Apportionment is exclusively the House’s responsibility. My guess is the Census Bureau will have the correct numbers in their back pocket when asked for them by Speaker Pelosi next year.
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He’s still licking his wounds from yesterday. You know, being bopped on the nose by a salient question can leave a sting.
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Seems like Trumps home state, where he has no legal home, Florida will be a loser in this scenario, along with his other heavily agricultural red states that depend on cheap illegal labor,
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Blame Covid. Blame tRump. They’re the same.
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It’s really quite simple: Abandon this plan or nothing gets through the House. No relief bill. No Pentagon appropriations. No pork. No agriculture subsidies. Nothing. Nada. Zero. Niente.
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Arrests or it’s meaningless.
(After all, “Law and Order!”, right?)
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b…b…b…but the Constitution says every subsequent term of 10 years. If you are in year 1 of the next 10 years, you are $*#@ out of luck (or so they will argue).