This was AWESOME news!! And is MUCH better than having the Citizenship Question on the Census.
Why? Because the real issue is about Congressional Apportionment. At the end of the statement AG Barr referenced a court case, that case is
Alabma V US Dept of Commerce
Alabama is suing the Dept of Commerce to force it to not include illegal aliens in the counts use for Congressional Apportionment. This is why the Citizenship Question was needed. If Alabama wins then there must be a means to excluding illegal aliens from the counts or the courts would through the case out as moot, because there was no legal remedy even if the plaintiff proved their case.
One of the weaknesses of the Alabama case is that it is uncertain that even with the Citizenship question on the Census would Commerce be able to come up with a number accurate enough for the court. It was questionable if it could, but now they are saying that they can come up with a much more accurate number of Citizens/Residents/Aliens and that can only strengthen the Alabama case!
To Anyone questioning how important this is, the effect of illegal aliens on the 2000 Census was nine congressional seats moving to other states. States gaining seats because of illegals were CA(+6), TX(+1), FL(+1), NY(+1). All states that lost seats (1 a piece) were carried by Trump in 2016. California would have had SIX fewer seats in Congress had illegals not been counted for Apportionment, and you know there are many times more illegals in the US now, so you can image what the impact would be. This is the real reason that Democrats love illegal immigration, and provide sanctuary cities/states!
Trump lost when he couldn’t get the citizenship question in the U.S. census. However, the information gained by a citizenship count could be useful in lawsuits such as Alabama vs US Department of Commerce. So it may not be a complete loss if the citizenship count could help in updating voter rolls.
I don’t get the apportionment thing.
Let’s say for example NY loses two seats. Do we lose those two congressman? Who decides who leaves? How does this whole thing work?