What about all the other invasive questions on the census?
I was on active duty in 2000 when that census was taken. There was a lot of Americans who were refusing to answer the invasive questions on the census.
My Commanding Officer issued a direct order to all military members at our command that we must answer every question fully. That order came down from President Clinton.
That’s how political the 2000 census was.
And now Democrats are up in arms about one question — and a relevant question at that. It answers the question: do our congressmen represent illegal aliens? Or only legal Americans?
Conservative Supreme Court justices were mostly silent Tuesday as a Trump administration lawyer defended the government’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, an indication the court’s majority may be inclined to side with the administration.
Critics say adding the question would discourage many immigrants from being counted, leading to an inaccurate count, and liberal justices peppered the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer with questions as the court began hearing more than an hour’s worth of arguments in the case. But the liberals would lack the votes to stop the plan without support from at least one conservative justice.
How the justices rule could affect how many seats states have in the House of Representatives and their share of federal dollars over the next 10 years.
Three federal courts have blocked the Commerce Department from adding the citizenship question. Those courts have ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated federal law in the way he went about trying to include the question for the first time since 1950. They found that millions of Hispanics, who tend to vote for Democrats, and immigrants would go uncounted.