Posted on 07/30/2019 7:16:20 PM PDT by bitt
The state of Alabama is suing the federal government over how it counts people in the census, claiming it will lose a seat in Congress because it has a low illegal-alien population.
The lawsuit, filed May 21, 2018, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, is garnering attention now after two federal judges permanently enjoined the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census earlier this month.
The dual rulings came after the Supreme Court ruled June 27 in Department of Commerce v. New York that the citizenship question couldn’t be included in the once-a-decade census. Backed by the four liberal justices, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s claim that the citizenship question was needed to gather data to help enforce the Voting Rights Act, writing that the rationale “seems to have been contrived.”
“Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census, in this case for 2020,” President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Excellent points.
Court will rule that California cannot be penalized for Alabama’s absence of sanctuary cities.
Makes perfect sense
Well that adds a new wrinkle.
Hope it works. I too find it utterly ridiculous the census can’t ask such a basic question.
I hope that more states will join this lawsuit.
They need to say legal black voters are being disenfranchised by including illegals in the census.
That’s how you win.
There is already a workaround for this and it provides a double benefit in that now agencies will be proving data into a pool that will match previously unconnected data to show things the census will not, and it will be legally binding, think IRS, Social Security Numbers, employers hiring illegals, EBT and much more
Far better and once fully implemented a ton of things will be revealed
Have faith
Alabama is right. How does it provide equal protection to citizens of states that have a low illegal immigrant population to refuse to ask the citizenship question - thereby counting illegal aliens? Counting them cheats citizens of those states by denying them congressional representation they are entitled to as well as federal funding they are entitled to and instead diverts both to states with illegal aliens who are entitled to neither.
Is Alabama counting all black residents now or are they still doing that 3/5 thing.
3/5th wasn’t an Alabama thing.
Most blacks that move from other states will tell you they’re treated a lot better here.
You might try reading the U.S. Constitution to see if that will cure your terminal case of the dumbass.
To Democrats, the truth is too dangerous to know.
To determine the population of the various states for the purpose apportioning Representatives to congress and Electors to the Electoral College.
Representatives to congress are elected by Citizens of the United States.
Representatives to Congress represent the voters of the district from which they are elected.
It logically follows that citizens should be counted in the census and that non-citizens who do not have the right to vote should not be counted for the purposes of apportionment.
If there is no differentiation in the census between citizens and non-citizens then apportionment can only done by the total population of a state and states with fewer non-citizens would be penalized in their representation in Congress and the Electoral College.
But of course, this is the Democrats plan. Flood the Democrat controlled areas with illegal aliens boosting the population of Democrat controlled metro areas taking permanent control of the House.
The Constitution says “their respective numbers”.
Invaders aren’t theirs and must not be counted.
“Is Alabama counting all black residents now or are they still doing that 3/5 thing.”
You are too cool for school.
“That 3/5 thing” was at the insistence of non-slave states.
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The Constitution, as amended, says everyone must be counted.
It then also specifies that apportionment should be reduced by proportions of certain categories of non-qualifying people who are there.
For some reason, most of those arguing the first point, tend to leave out the second part of the same amendment.
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