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Barr says Trump administration can legally add citizenship question to census
The Hill ^ | 07/08/19 | Jacqueline Thomsen

Posted on 07/08/2019 8:36:06 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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To: BlueHorseShoe

Whatever happened to /stare decisis/?


21 posted on 07/08/2019 11:08:46 PM PDT by gasport (The dung beetle should be the symbol of the Democrat Party)
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To: yesthatjallen
Ask them who their favorite football players are. If they list a bunch of soccer players, they don’t get counted.

More than one way to skin that cat.

22 posted on 07/08/2019 11:56:53 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Hawaiian Judge doesn’t wear a Hawaiian robe and shirt? What a stiff

He must look like a real dork on a surf board.


23 posted on 07/09/2019 1:02:01 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: yesthatjallen
...though the Supreme Court ruled against its inclusion last month.

More totally incorrect armchair legal analysis from the media. The Supreme Court ruling did nothing of the sort. In fact it ruled that there was nothing inherently unconstitutional about a citizenship status question, they also struck down most of the plaintiff's other objections based on New York State privacy and Civil Rights laws. The only section they ruled against the government on was the judicial oversight portion where they said the Government had failed to provide sufficient explanation to the lower court regarding the administrative reasoning for adding the question back and kicked it back to the lower court to give the Government a chance to respond.

24 posted on 07/09/2019 3:17:27 AM PDT by apillar
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To: mass55th

The man plays bagpipes. But I can forgive him this one transgression.
(A more annoying sound I’ve never heard)


25 posted on 07/09/2019 3:27:57 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: yesthatjallen
"The DOJ also announced late Sunday that it was pulling its entire legal team for the citizenship question off the case, and replacing them with other government lawyers."

"YOU'RE FIRED".

26 posted on 07/09/2019 4:51:54 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: boatbums

:: because they know it will effect their balance of power in Congress! ::

Follow the money. If Medicaid For All is enacted, the Federal dollars will be distributed according to the census apportionment.


27 posted on 07/09/2019 5:26:24 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Did you know that the C_A is the largest venture capital source in the world?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Typical of a big government, total waste of time money and resources. The question is not only reasonable given the tens of millions of illegals infesting the country, but absolutely necessary.


28 posted on 07/09/2019 5:38:24 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: yesthatjallen

still haven’t seen the statute that says a reason is needed...
has anyone else ?


29 posted on 07/09/2019 6:31:14 AM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Hostage
I'm checking the various census records on Ancestry.com.

1900, column 16, 17 and 18 Titled "Citizenship". Column 16 = "Year of immigration to the United States". Column 17 = Number of years in the United States. Column 18 = Naturalization. Previous columns as where you were born, your age, and where your parents were born.

1910 US Census. Columns 15 and 16 titled, "Citizenship". Column 15 = "Year of immigration to the United States". Column 16 = "Whether naturalized or alien."

1920 US Census Columns 13, 14 an 15 are titled, "Citizenship". Column 13 = "Year of immigration to the United States". Column 14 = "Naturalized or alien." Column 15 = If naturalized, year of naturalization".

1930 US Census. Columns 22, 23, 24 titled, "Citizenship, etc.". Column 22 = Year of immigration to the United States". Column 23 = "Naturalization". Column 24 = Whether able to speak English".

1940 US Census. Column 16, titled "Citizenship". Column 16 = "Citizenship of the foreign born". They had to clear space for more questions about employment and income due to the depression.

30 posted on 07/09/2019 6:45:45 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: Trump.Deplorable

This Bill Barr really does suck at being a Deep Stater that some freepers swore up and down that is exactly how he would be. And they still think he is a Deep State rat.


Not really. Barr isn’t really sticking his neck out here because obviously he has the full support of the Congressional GOP on this one.

Meanwhile, still nothing from the “Trump” DOJ regarding Democrat crimes from now 3 years ago. Plenty of low hanging fruit there and Barr is leaving it all on the trees.


31 posted on 07/09/2019 6:51:07 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lightman

Like Nike says: “Just do it!”

I find it hard to understand the concept that the census can ask for nearly every intimate detail to the point of almost asking the color of my pubic hair but cannot ask whether I am an American citizen. We truly live in Bizarro world, either that or I am one cranky old man, I am growing sicker and sicker of this PC era. I have pleasant daydreams of going back to living in a shack out in the boonies.


32 posted on 07/09/2019 7:19:27 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I need some green first and then we'll talk a new deal!)
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To: Vaquero
Yeah they really need to write more than one song for the bigpipes -

Everyone is all excited about Bill Barr and so far its warranted but we just got burnt by Sessions so I can see why people are skeptical. He seems smart and strategic eventually, soon, people need to get charged with crimes and these FISA memos need to come out - unredacted. The American people deserve to know the means and methods and by who exactly - tried to overturn our vote.

This classified stuff in this regard is garbage - the amount of material that has leaked exposing how our intelligence apparatus works has been huge with Snowden, WikiLeaks etc to redact in this matter anything is so bogus at this point.

There is no asset as important no method so super secret in this matter that merits overriding the American citizen right to know the whole truth about how our government was subverted down to the agent level even if it does include Obama.

If we don't get to see these memos then Barr is garbage like the rest and protecting his own and we are just witnessing the surface level events of a power struggle among the elite.

33 posted on 07/09/2019 7:39:08 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: Mogger

Please continue. The actual questions will be a great find.

There are ways at getting at citizenship without asking directly.

“Where were you born?”

“Were you naturalized?”


34 posted on 07/09/2019 8:26:25 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: yesthatjallen
Opponents of the question argued that its inclusion on the census would lead to an inaccurate count of the population, as ILLEGALimmigrants might be discouraged from participating, and might lead to Republicans demanding representative apportionment based on US citizenship which will cause blue states to lose representatives.

There, fixed it.

35 posted on 07/09/2019 8:52:13 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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To: kevao

I intend to write in RED on every page that I AM a USA citizen.


36 posted on 07/09/2019 10:01:36 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: mass55th
He plays the bagpipe very well indeed!
37 posted on 07/09/2019 12:30:26 PM PDT by Chgogal (Definition of a “louse”: Robert Mueller. Definition of a “Jacka$$”: SCJ Roberts)
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