Court blocks Trump order to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count

[Rogue Valley]

Court blocks Trump order to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count

9/11/20
A federal court on Thursday blocked a memorandum signed by President Trump seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census for apportionment, saying such action would violate the statute governing congressional apportionment. A special three-judge panel out of New York wrote that the president’s argument that undocumented immigrants should not be counted runs afoul of a statute saying apportionment must be based on everyone who is a resident of the United States. The judges found that all residents must be counted for apportionment purposes regardless of their legal status. The ruling declared the president’s July 21 memorandum to be “an unlawful exercise of the authority granted to the President,” and it blocked the Commerce Department and the Census Bureau from including information about the number of undocumented immigrants in their reports to the president after the count is completed. The ruling is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court. Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, and one of the attorneys who argued the case, called the ruling “a huge victory for voting rights and for immigrants’ rights. President Trump has tried and failed yet again to weaponize the census against immigrant communities. The law is clear — every person counts in the census.”

A victory for the Constitution which says that everyone must be counted, not only residents that the president approves of.

 

[element94]

Trump considers the Constitution an impediment.

 

[MaryP]

Court blocks Trump order to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count

A victory for the Constitution which says that everyone must be counted, not only residents that the president approves of.

That was one of his more hateful ideas. He sure is keeping the courts busy with all his ignorant bull**** decrees.

I'm not a fan of illegal immigrants, either, but we have so many here, essential to our economy, most say, that there is no political will to deal with the root of the problem--the employers who hire them. Not counting them on the census was a retarded idea to begin with, since there was no way to determine from the census if anyone was here illegally.

Oh well, Trump is keeping the lawyers employed, anyway.

 

[Drawdown]

Okay but most people already have filled out their census

 

[CaughtInThe]

have you guys noticed that Republicans, who screamed about our Founders and our Constitution and transparency, have mostly fallen silent during this Trump era (about those things)?


they'll be preaching again during the next Democratic Administration i'm sure.