"Hit it, boys. Roll the La Cuacracha tape, and get me my sombrero and my castanents."
Posted on 02/13/2018 1:29:43 PM PST by davikkm
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is threatening to sue if the Trump administration includes a question regarding citizenship on the 2020 census. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Becerra worries citizenship questions will dissuade some California residents from taking the census, thereby under-representing themselves and running the risk of a loss of federal funding for certain parts of the state.
Becerra is part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general who fighting against inclusion of a citizenship. They sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday, in which Becerra described counting everyone, citizen or not, as a “sacred responsibility.” He wrote:
What the Trump Administration is requesting is not just alarming, it is illegal. The Constitution requires that, every 10 years, we accurately count every person in our country, regardless of citizenship status. This is a sacred responsibility. It determines how many Congressional seats each state receives and how billions of dollars in federal funds are distributed. At the local level, it should also produce an accurate population count that our communities can rely on to identify the need for critical services such as disaster relief, infrastructure, public health, and police and fire protection.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It would only be illegal if those who answer "No" would not be counted, but's it's good to have the information of who is a citizen and who is not.
California threatens to sue if Trump wakes up in the morning.
Not only loss of federal funding, but loss of congressional representation, which is their real fear.
They’re just outing themselves
They stand for illegal aliens. Over us. Straight up
Sooner or later a majority of democrat types will come to trump on this
Legal immigrants Are most heavily affected
Either we’re a country. Or not
That AG should be arrested and jailed.
It is extremely naive to expect that an alien invader would answer truthfully.
Becerra to sue Trump?
Looks like the Dems are working the same playbook.
DNC head Tom Perez said if voters dont vote Democrat, he’s gonna sue Trump.
Good one. This guy is an idiot. The first census I ever received was during Obama’s F America years. Both of them asked citizenship plus much more.
"Hit it, boys. Roll the La Cuacracha tape, and get me my sombrero and my castanents."
BTW, just wondering, did Xavier's predecessor, US Senator Kamala Harris, relocate her loyal AG staff to DC?
I certainly hope none of California’s pressing legal issues fell through the cracks in the transition?
Hopefully, Kamala left her hard drive behind so Xavier could review her recent activity.
UPDATE: Kamala's hard drives proved good for nothing. All she did was order Viagra online for her sex romps with the ex-Mayor.
This is another unresolved issue in the constitution, like whether those illegally born on U.S. soil are citizens.
The constitution simply says count everyone and doesn’t distinguish on status. The only exception as I remember is tribal Indians.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. As if this little twerp’s threats are going to scare President Trump.
Sacred eh? I wonder what the church thinks of that. Didn’t the bible say something about travelling to your birthplace to be counted? Is that sacred too?
<><> The Awans had access to all the Democrats Congressional data including Democrats emails. Imran Awan is the walking example of an insider threat, a criminal actor who had access to everything.” “They were using Xavier Becerra’s House Democratic Caucus as their central service warehouse. The data was completely out of the members’ possession. Does it mean it was sold to the Russians?
<><> Imran’s wife Hina Alvi was the only IT officially authorized to use Xavier Becerra's House Democratic Caucus computer equipment. She is on record as logging on about 300 times......as the rest of the Awan crew were accessing intel on Becerra's computer thousands of times using Becerra's passwords and codes.
Becerra was looking the other way (snort).
Becerra---now Cali's top lawman----refuses to answer questions about this.
<><>The Awan family was logging in to Xavier Becerra’s House Democratic Caucus server with 17 different accounts belonging to Congressional offices whose data should have had no connection to the caucus, according to the House investigative report. The patterns were consistent with data being funneled onto Becerra’s server from other members of Congress, but the members said Becerra never alerted them of any aberrations. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
The census should only ask what is your address and how many people are there.
-PJ
Trump has got to ignore the courts. They have no jurisdiction.
This will come as a shock to the liberal Attorney Generals, but The U.S. Constitution empowers the Congress to carry out the census in “such manner as they shall by Law direct” (Article I, Section 2). ... Title 13, U.S. Code, does not specify which subjects or questions are to be included in the decennial census
President Trump: Please tell that GANGSTER California AG to go SIT on a Coke bottle and ROTATE!!
Force California to prove that they still have legal residents in the state. We need a longer border wall!
"… and running the risk of a loss of federal [??? emphasis added] funding for certain parts of the state."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Unless certain parts of California are having problems with the US Mail Service (1.8.7), the mail service being one of the very few domestic powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the feds, then California AG Becerra evidently doesn't understand the following.
From related threads …
Probably most of the federal funding that California and all other states receive is arguably state revenues that Congress has stolen from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified Congress's limited power to appropriate taxes as follows.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Regarding unconstitutional federal taxes, note that the Founding States had established the federal Senate partly to kill bills that steal not only state powers, but also effectively steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.
The problem is that the Progressive Movement later spooked low-information citizens to pressure their state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A). And state lawmakers not only unthinkingly gave up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress by doing so, but politically repealed constitutional limits on the fed's powers.
As a consequence of 17A, low-information voters are electing senators who evidently don't understand the fed's constitutionally limited power any better than the voters do. So it's no surprise that career lawmakers are unthinkingly wrongly passing vote-winning bills that steal state powers and state revenues.
Getting back to AG Becerra, if he is so concerned about revenues for his state then he needs to do the following.
California needs to work with the other states to support Pres. Trump in leading the states to repeal 17A. (The 16th Amendment (16A) can disappear too.)
After 16 and 17A are repealed then the states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues (higher state taxes) that they won't know what to do with.
For starters, each state can establishing its own custom healthcare and retirement plans, increase funding for public schools, police and fire departments, and also repair infrastructure.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting, state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the 2018 primary ballots, and pink-slip incumbent lawmakers by sending candidate patriot lawmakers to DC on election day.
And until the states wake up and repeal 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of Alabama's special Senate election, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
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