Posted on 07/08/2019 5:52:33 PM PDT by SMGFan
Pelosi announces plans for full House vote in dear colleague letter, also outlining legislative steps to protect migrants
The House will “soon” vote to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary William Ross in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas for documents explaining the administration’s rationale for wanting to add a citizenship question to the census, Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in a “Dear Colleague” letter on Monday.
The Oversight and Reform Committee last month approved a contempt resolution against Barr and Ross that included language to refer the matter to the U.S. attorney in Washington for possible criminal charges, as well as authorize the pursuit of a lawsuit.
The Justice and Commerce departments have provided the Oversight Committee with some documents on the citizenship question while withholding others over claims of executive privilege.
The House, in a floor vote the day before the Oversight contempt markup, already gave all committees the authority to file lawsuits to enforce their subpoenas.
That means a floor vote is not needed for Democrats to try to get a court order forcing Barr and Ross to hand over the outstanding documents they requested.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
Communist circle jerk .. brought to you by voters (incl wetbacks) on the left side of the bell curve.
What happened to the democRATS is that the communists from the 1960s counterculture are running the party now.
THink of every idea Charlie Manson, Black Panthers, William Ayers, etc. had they are now putting forward as a legitimate plan.
It’s nuts, but it explains their current mindset.
They are not even thinking in a rationale mind. I and others think they have gone insane.
Here is the 820 CENSUS form
Here is the 1820 CENSUS form
Amendment 14 Section 2:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election... is denied to any of the inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such citizens shall bear to the whole number of citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.The Constitution requires the counting of citizens. Any such reasoning that Barr, Ross, or Trump may have asserted is moot.
By Article VI, this is supreme Law of the Land. Congress, nor the Supreme Court, may overturn Article VI or the 14th amendment requirements.
-PJ
Democrats are desperate. They are trying to taint the good name of our President in any way they can. In this case they are trying for headlines to cause people to think negative thoughts about the name of Trump whether he did anything wrong, or not. It’s political harassment.
The Dims will claim that the illegals fear the government would use the census citizenship information to locate and round them up, so many would not participate in the census. But the promise is that census data will not be used for any other purpose and I think the government has always abided by that.
The Dims just want that maximum count of illegals to keep their number of US Reps. and electoral votes as high as possible. But I don't think there is anyone who honestly believes that illegal aliens should count toward a states representation in Congress. It's just another power grab and those that gain from it have no qualms about it.
The rationale should take 30 seconds. We are correcting Obama’s error by returning the question to the census.
Is their any doubt that Pelosi has committed countless illegal acts during her days. I sure hope that someone holds her accountable.
We really don’t have a government anymore. We have a political mafia.
Fun fact, the 1870 census specifically asked whether the mother and father were foreign born.
please make it so
“... the 1870 census specifically asked whether the mother and father were foreign born...”
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That question does not reveal one’s individual citizenship.
No. The question is why was it removed in the first place.
“...the 14th amendment to the Constitution requires that only citizens be counted...”
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It says...”counting the whole number of persons in each State”.
Of course they will!
AND 18 congressional seats.
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