To Weaken Minority Voting Power, Republicans Push For Unprecedented Mid-Decade Census

[RandySF]

Unsatisfied with norm-busting mid-decade partisan gerrymanders, House Republicans are now laying down the intellectual groundwork for an unlawful mid-decade census.

At a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government hearing Wednesday, Republicans claimed counting noncitizens and statistical errors in the 2020 Census justified a recount to give the GOP more seats in Congress, even though federal law prohibits a mid-decade census being used for apportionment.

“These errors are impossible to correct without an entirely new census,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.), the subcommittee chairman.

“The 2020 Census should be called the sanctuary census,” Roy said. “Just like sanctuary jurisdictions, the 2020 Census unconstitutionally put illegal aliens ahead of American citizens.”



https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/to-weaken-minority-voting-power-republicans-push-for-unprecedented-mid-decade-census/

[rampartd]

1. does kradnov know what a census costs?

make everybody show up for the census in person with their citizenship papers?

maybe he forgot who signed the 2020 census (hint. neither obama nor biden were president in 2020.)

do we really need a constitutional amendment to stop something that the constitution says happens every 10 years on years divisible by 10?

[Wiz Imp]

2. The constitution REQUIRES counting non-citizens

It requires counting ALL residents of the US. And beginning with the very 1st census in 1790, EVERY US Census has counted ALL persons residing in the US, NOT just citizens. (Chip Roy is an asshole, a racist AND a moron). Beyond that, including all the prep work, it takes more than a decade to do all the work involved in conducting a census. There will be a census in 2030 (constitutionally mandated). But even if they wanted to ignore the constitution and do a mid-decade census, the earliest they could pull one off at this point would be around 2035. Doing another census before 2030 would literally be logistically impossible.