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...
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
“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.”
Why? You need to take a civics class instead of playing fascist.
The Constitution says the government shall conduct a census, but in no way does it say that we have to participate with it, especially when the census is not counting people as required but asking all for kinds of personal information not stated in the Constitution.
If you ever took a civics class then maybe you might, maybe, understand the concept of checks and balances.
@$$ Press.
Oh for the day Leftafornia loses seats and Texas gains seats and New Yawk loses seats and Florida gains seats and ... well you get the idea.
EVERY game the Dims are in, when they think they are losing, they either change the rules or demand the rules be changed while the game is still being played.
This is projectionism. The AP is saying they want the census numbers to be controlled by Biden, as opposed to just writing down what they are under Trump.
Thanks RACPE.
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