Trump Makes Huge New Long-Term Power Grab For GOP

discobot · July 21, 2020, 5:13pm

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE

SUBJECT: Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1321616

maximus · July 21, 2020, 5:16pm

Let the lawsuits commence.

captainfantastic · July 21, 2020, 5:18pm

You mean “illegals” don’t even count as 3/5 of a person?

Wow! That’s a bit of a step backwards …

dadawerke · July 21, 2020, 5:19pm

Gosh even the slaves counted for 3/5s of a person in the count! Maybe he’s looking to start a race war between Hispanics and African-Americans.

tiowally · July 21, 2020, 5:19pm

If he keeps this up people might think he’s a full-blown racist. Imagine that!

inthesedays · July 21, 2020, 5:20pm

I wonder if Melania was counted in the last census while she was in our country illegally.

https://www.newsweek.com/was-melania-trump-once-undocumented-994609

PrimeTime · July 21, 2020, 5:20pm

Based on the ruling the last couple of weeks of the SC session, I can imagine Roberts won’t go for Trumps unilateral usurpation of their previous rulings

donorth · July 21, 2020, 5:20pm

Factually incorrect. Congress apportions representatives, not the president, per the census data. Did he even have a real lawyer read this?

enceladus · July 21, 2020, 5:20pm

It should be obvious to all that the Founders intended that the King determine who should be counted in a census, and even who has the right to vote, despite what they wrote in our quaint constitution.

ronbyers · July 21, 2020, 5:20pm

This goes nowhere. The Constitution is crystal clear. We count everybody.

edgarant · July 21, 2020, 5:22pm

I wonder if a President Biden could sign one Executive Order rescinding all of the Chosen One’s?

morrigan_2575 · July 21, 2020, 5:22pm

Another one for the courts. If it makes it to the SCOTUS, it will be a 5-4 decision with Roberts openly begging GOP to stop being idiots and just give him something he could rule in favor of.

psudawnc · July 21, 2020, 5:23pm

I’m not convinced Trump read that as it’s kind of long. I suppose the whole idea is based on John Yoo’s new theory of Presidential law-making.

egyptsteve · July 21, 2020, 5:24pm

I’m willing to offer a friendly wager to Drumpf: I’ll support this policy if you can read the Executive Order aloud all the way through without any mistakes.

steviedee111 · July 21, 2020, 5:24pm

I may very well be mistaken, but aren’t a great many people in the U.S. illegally involved in farm work and associated industries? And aren’t a great many of those people principally working in southern states? Throw in those in hospitality such as resort hotels and facilities, golf courses, etc clustered in the south. Meat processing facilities, a great many found in red leaning states. It seems to me depriving those states of people counting towards House apportionment, and the resulting seats each state is granted in the House, exposes southern states to as much or more losses of seats in the House than would be suffered by blue states. No?

williamv · July 21, 2020, 5:24pm

The constitution says what SCOTUS says it does.

tiowally · July 21, 2020, 5:26pm

Like the dozens TrumpCo GolfCo recently fired from their landscaping jobs?

chickulese · July 21, 2020, 5:27pm

tRump didn’t even read it.

euglena4056 · July 21, 2020, 5:27pm

The usual, playing to his base, trying to burnish his brand (as he sees it).

Neither he nor his advisors care about whether this happens or not, really. Just looking for press.

robb_ludwig · July 21, 2020, 5:28pm

They’re going to have to create a new cabinet secretary in charge of the Department to un-Trumpfuck the Country.