Posted on 10/14/2020 4:15:18 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration can end census field operations early, in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities and hard-to-enumerate communities are properly counted in the crucial once-a-decade tally.
The decision was not a total loss for plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the administration’s decision to end the count early. They managed to get nearly two extra weeks of counting people as the case made its way through the courts.
However, the ruling increased the chances of the Trump administration retaining control of the process that decides how many congressional seats each state gets — and by extension how much voting power each state has.
The Supreme Court justices’ ruling came as the nation’s largest association of statisticians, and even the U.S. Census Bureau’s own census takers and partners, have been raising questions about the quality of the data being gathered — numbers that are used to determine how much federal funding and how many congressional seats are allotted to states.
After the Supreme Court’s decision, the Census Bureau said field operations would end on Thursday.
At issue was a request by the Trump administration that the Supreme Court suspend a lower court’s order extending the 2020 census through the end of October following delays caused by the pandemic. The Trump administration argued that the head count needed to end immediately to give the bureau time to meet a year-end deadline.
Congress requires the bureau to turn in by Dec. 31 the figures used to decide the states’ congressional seats — a process known as apportionment.
By sticking to the deadline, the Trump administration would end up controlling the numbers used for the apportionment, no matter who wins next month’s presidential election...
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Headline should be.
Supreme Court allows census to end ON TIME IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW.
It is a misleading headline
You know what be funny? Trump wins re-election and the next day Justice Breyer retires. Chuckles galore in Washington.
Yea!!!
But they’re still counting heads, and ballots, and...
Doesn’t John Roberts know how important this census is to the Democrats?
But John Roberts DOES KNOW that all Supreme Court inJustices and all Census workers and statistician lobbyists are purely and logically driven and have NEVER had a political bias or agenda!
Is it that the President was trying to end the process "early"?
Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration can end census field operations early
Or that he was trying to cut it off on time and the AP's political heros managed to extend it beyond the scheduled stop?
They managed to get nearly two extra weeks of counting people as the case made its way through the courts.
Blech!
Remember the Census worker who committed suicide in 2010 and tried to make it look like murder by some rednecks?................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Bill_Sparkman
Correct me if I am wrong, it is not more difficult to enumerate communities where minorities reside. They live in more densely populated areas, don't work, so they are at home watching Oprah and Jerry Springer during the day. You can count them easily as they smoke crack on their stoops, or find them in abandon houses shooting up smack. Just follow the stench. On the other hand, white folks all live in gated communities and are dispersed by vast land holdings passed down though the generations from their former slave owning ancestors. It is the latter that are more difficult to count. No way would their private security guards, armed to the teeth with fully automatic weapons, allow a census taker to pass through the gates.
More seriously, densely populated areas are easier to count than driving around the suburbs and rural fringes where a lower percentage of minorities and a higher percentage of whites reside.
The AP is full of leftist bull schiff.
The Constitution requires every single person in the USA to be counted.
What should have been done is to issue census confirmation cards. If the census due date is April 1, 2030, you should not be able to enter a school, collect a government benefit or make a purchase in May 2030 without showing your census confirmation card.
>>More seriously, densely populated areas are easier to count than driving around the suburbs and rural fringes where a lower percentage of minorities and a higher percentage of whites reside.
...or rural white voters like me that chases trespassers off my property with a rifle in my hands.
State birth and death records, naturalization records, airline boarding prechecks, tax and drivers license records, Medicare and SNAP records could be used to refine an apportionment database.
I suspect federal law can and does provide “necessary and proper” power for census workers to enter gated communities.
“...in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities and hard-to-enumerate communities are properly counted.”
AP — Always Propaganda
You forget the white privilege clause of the US Constitution.
Let's not forget, as soon as he landed in DC, Obama placed his COS Rham Emanuel in charge of the US Treasury..... and the Census.
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REFERENCE----When they crawled out of the sewers of Chicago and descended on DC...
one of the first things the Obama cabal did was takeover the census......and the US Treasury
Controlling the Census: The Obama Administration’s Power Grab
Martha Zoller | humanevents.com / Thursday Feb 12, 2009 3:01 AM
"The American people deserve a non-partisan census in 2010, and we hope the committee will ensure that goal comes to fruition by holding an oversight hearing on the administration’s potential plans to reduce the future secretary of commerce’s authority over the agency," Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee
The preservation and expansion of the Democrat majority is the only reason the Obama Administration is exercising its power and taking over the Census. Last week, without much fanfare, The White House moved control of the Census from the Commerce Department to the Executive Branch. The Democrats want to use “sampling” to add to the counts in urban areas homeless people and minorities that they believe will be under counted. The Supreme Court shot down the idea of “sampling” in the last Census, but the Obama Administration is going to tee it up again and see if it flies.
In the last Census, congressional seats moved from states that were losing population in the North and Northeast, to states that were gaining population in the South, Southwest and Mountain regions of America. That is a loss of power from generally Democrat strongholds to more likely Republican areas. That population trend is expected to continue which means more seats out of Blue States into Red States.
That’s why before the ink was even dry on the announcement of Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) as Commerce Secretary, the Congressional Black Caucus and Latino groups were complaining that a Republican could not be in control of the census. Instead of supporting Gregg and letting the confirmation process vet this issue, the White House immediately caved and gave the power of oversight of the Census to the White House and indicated that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel would be in charge.
Not only is this the wrong political move to make, it may also be unconstitutional. It is the duty of the Congress to take the Census every 10 years and through a law passed in Congress, it gives the power to execute the Census to the Commerce Department. If Congress has established — by law — that Commerce has the responsibility, the White House can’t override that law. If it does so, the action is illegal and unconstitutional to boot.
It would be helpful to know what Senator Gregg has to say about this but so far he hasn’t commented. Maybe he received a dead fish in the mail from Mr. Emanuel. Many suspect that he didn’t see this coming but it is seen by most as a slap in the face to the integrity of Senator Gregg and the Commerce Department. Controversy over this isn’t new and that’s why a letter was sent last year to the President signed by every Census Director since Nixon supporting a bill to make the Census Bureau an independent agency.
The directors believe they could be more effective if they could deal directly with Congress and there’s a Constitutional argument to back that up. New York Democrat, Carolyn Maloney is the bill’s chief sponsor — so this is a bipartisan issue. Many people, who won’t go on the record, are afraid of a Census process that is overseen by one of the most hyperpartisan people of our generation, Rahm Emanuel.
The Obama administration is quickly adopting the Chicago way of governing by fear. First the fear of economic collapse, which with the announcements and proclamations on a daily basis of doom and gloom seem to be riling the markets. Now they want to instill the fear that Republicans want to ignore minorities and the homeless in the Census count. To strip the Commerce Department of this responsibility just because a Republican is appointed to the position is a pretty sad state of affairs. But it’s only the beginning. This is not a “post-partisan” White House.
I’m a bit old school on the Census. I believe it should be a count and that’s it. The data derived from asking whether you have indoor plumbing or how many bedrooms you have is interesting, but not a part of the Census (and frankly none of the government’s business). The Census affects every aspect of how government asserts its power over us: the way our votes count — toward one congressman or another — results from the census. It provides the raw data by which government spending is allocated on everything from roads to schools. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also uses the Census to prepare the economic data that businesses rely on.
"The real issue is who directs the Census, the pros or the pols," says Bruce Chapman, who was director of the Census in the Reagan/Bush Era. "You would think an administration that’s thumping its chest about respecting science would show a little respect for scientists in the statistical field." It a tad ironic that the Obama administration is standing firm on the “fact” of global warming but wants a hyperpartisan such as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to oversee the Census.
John Fund, in the Wall Street Journal, said, “The Obama administration is downplaying how closely the White House will oversee the Census Bureau. But Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insists there is "historical precedent" for the Census director to be "working closely with the White House." Fund is one of the foremost experts on election fraud and ultimately, manipulating the Census is a tool to be used to steal elections.
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Obama's co-opting the Census and the Treasury left a huge paper trail. Donald better get ahold of that info ASAP.
Thank you! I had forgotten that transfer.
So, the Census has been under the control of the Deep State for 10 years now, eh?
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