http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3762570/posts?page=17#17
Citizenship has been ascertained in various forms for mo0st of the 220 years the census has been performed.
SCOTUS concurred that Commerce has the power to ask the citizenship question. There is no question.
But Roberts is an ass. He sent the case back to the lower courts because Ross wasn’t ‘clear enough’.
POTUS will continue to fight in the lower courts and then come back and win in SCOTUS.
But in the meantime, he’s ordered Commerce to go full steam with statistical inference to get the portions accurately estimated.
Donald Trump likely called in his top directors at Commerce and poured over the alternatives. The Census is one of the premier breeding grounds of accurate efficient estimation algorithms. Look up W. Edwards Deming to understand. We can be assured those Census Directors briefed POTUS thoroughly what the alternatives were, what works, what can be defended.
Not sure why you replied to me with that. I don’t see where you addressed my point, being:
Illegal aliens may very will be included in the apportionment of congressional representatives. In other words, if California’s illegal immigrants turn out to number 1,000,000, then those million people may very well help California get more representatives in the House, even though they’re not citizens. I’m starting to think I’m not saying it clearly enough.
I don’t disagree with anything you said, by the way.