Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Census citizenship question still under debate

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/census-case-could-provoke-constitutional-crisis/593425/

 

Many conservatives want the citizenship question so they can increase Republican power in the House of Representatives and the state legislatures and so they can direct less money to states with Democratic majorities. After the Supreme Court struck the question from the census, some conservatives think they have found a new way to add the citizenship question to the census. This author says the Constitution gives control of the census to Congress in Article I – not to the President.

 

Charlie Cooper

“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

 

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