No matter what the court rules, the census long form should be abolished. The reason for this is that the constitution requires an “actual enumeration”, but that’s it.
Mandating that citizens must answer other questions is a violation of the 4th Amendment. Comparably, a person should not be compelled to answer if they are approached by a police officer who demands to know if anyone in their home has committed any crime.
Even if the officer is doing so “just to collect statistical data.” His assurance in no way diminishes the need for him to have a pressing government need for that information.
Not just for the “convenience of government”, “ease of bureaucracy”, “to insure that everyone has indoor toilets (an actual census question), or any other excuse.
Having a captive audience because of the census in no way diminishes the constitutional requirement.
The citizenship question has been included in the census for 200 years. It went to the long form in 1965 and was deleted by Rahm Emanuel in 2010.
The citizenship question has always been necessary to adjust for slaves and to exclude non-taxed Indians. Subsequent amendments to the Constitution made it even more compelling to include the citizenship question.
The key population of the census is known as the ‘Apportionment Population’. This is the population of Americans that are entitled to representation in Congress. Not all who breathe the air inside the borders of the United States are entitled to representation in Congress.
On Obama’s orders, Rahm Emanuel deleted the citizenship question from the 2010 Census for one reason only, to include the enormous number of illegals which are by and large concentrated in Democratically controlled urban areas to be counted as part of the Apportion Population, thus apportioning more congressional seats to Democrat strongholds.