As Twitchy reported, an email from the Department of Justice confirms that the 2020 census form is being sent to the printer without a citizenship question. Progressives are rejoicing, perhaps most enthusiastically in California, where the huge number of illegal immigrants can now be counted toward things such as congressional representation and federal funding.
Those who want it kept secret from the people who is and who is not a citizen of these United States are celebrating recent Supreme Court decision and its results. https://t.co/YgRN6ahYWs
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 2, 2019
The Federalist’s Benjamin Weingarten is calling the decision “a total disaster.”
Started following the census citizenship q @FDRLST two years ago when I noticed the likes of Eric Holder et al hopping onboard the outrage train. Articles follow — but long and short is that Ds don't want you to know how much non-citizens including illegals diminish your vote
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
…And how this issue further incentivizes open borders and sanctuary city policies to the detriment of law-abiding American citizens. We had a horrendous, disingenuous ruling by SCOTUS, and it has led to a totally outrageous result. Relevant background on the politics/law follow
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
Weingarten wrote for The Federalist last March on why progressives were so insistent that a citizenship question be kept off the census:
The census is essential to our political process because it provides a population count of citizens and noncitizens that drives apportionment of U.S. House seats, and by extension the number of presidential electors allocated to each state. The census also dictates where and to whom the federal government doles out hundreds of billions of dollars.
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That those state attorneys general were recently joined by former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder indicates the gravity of this issue for the Left. Why? Illegal aliens tend to live in large blue urban areas. The greater the population figures due to the counting of illegal aliens, the more political power and bacon such states can bring in.
There are also political benefits to harping on this issue: Fear-mongering over the citizenship question plays into the narrative of the “racist, anti-immigrant Trump administration” — a narrative that can be leveraged to raise money and increase turnout. And with the 2022 redistricting based on the 2020 census — a redistricting largely tied to the partisan makeup of state legislatures — making this a national issue in a 2018 midterm election year in which gubernatorial elections are being held in 36 states makes good political sense.
On the eve of July 4th we find that Americans don't have a right to know the population of noncitizens (illegal and legal alike) living among us, and thus how they impact congressional seats and the allocation of hundreds of billions of dollars of our hard-earned tax dollars https://t.co/R2er4Y874B
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
Census citizenship q summarized:
1) Trump admin wants to ask "Are you a citizen?" NOT, "Are you an illegal?" to round people up, as fearmongers on Left shrieked.
2) Left agitates, find Left judges to side w/ them.
3) SCOTUS says question is constitutional, but five judges don't..— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
Believe stated admin rationale for including citizenship q was genuine and in good faith because ORANGE MAN BAD.
In sum: Trump doesn't have the right to do what is constitutional, and what no court could prevent any other POTUS from doing. We are now a nation of men, not laws
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
The same chief justice who talks about the importance of protecting the integrity of SCOTUS is also responsible for Obamacare and tanking the census citizenship question. Let that sink in next time you hear "NORMS!" "INSTITUTIONS!"
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
Lost in census citizenship q outrage is the even more basic q about why noncitizens including illegal aliens should be counted in the census in the first place. There's a good argument they shouldn't based on law, leaving aside fundamental unfairness of it https://t.co/AC3Z1hJLoy pic.twitter.com/JgtyetmTNz
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
The citizenship q was kept off the census not bc it was unconstitutional but under phony pretext that the Trump admin put it forth under a phony pretext, somehow rendering it illegitimate. By that standard, Rs should've been able to invalidate all of Obama's executive actions
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
You can read more about that supposed “phony pretext” from Gabriel Malor here.
SCOTUS opened up a can of worms conservatives could (SHOULD) exploit to tank the administrative state — all because of hatred of Trump, and inability among our senior-most jurists to treat him like every other president. A total disaster for the country
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) July 2, 2019
Roberts gave us Obamacare an now this. Unreal.
— Dominic DiMatteo (@DominicDimatte1) July 2, 2019
VERY disappointing. I find it hard to believe the White House doesn’t have something else up their sleeve on this?They gave in so quickly considering the citizenship question was not ruled illegal/unconstitutional, but questioned the rationale-which is not the courts place anyway
— James Roberts (@JamesRoberta7) July 2, 2019
It's time that those "Census Bureau experts" that NPR and others liked to quote about how there are much better ways to measure citizenship to step up and do it. No excuses.
— misinforminimalism (@jeff_techentin) July 2, 2019
I'll write in the number of citizens in my household on the form when it arrives.
— Stephen (@Stephen_S_C) July 2, 2019
More US citizens are disenfranchised by illegal votes cast by illegal aliens in one election than were disenfranchised by every year of Jim Crow laws combined.
— Common Sense (@Paine_1776) July 2, 2019
Why bother to fill it out? US citizens don't matter to DC.
— 2014Idiot (@BaffledUnamused) July 2, 2019
They don’t seem to matter to the Democratic candidates, who are starting to weigh in:
It can’t be overstated: This is an enormous win for our democracy. #2020census https://t.co/85z7iNut1l
— Jay Inslee (@JayInslee) July 2, 2019
From day one, we’ve known that the citizenship question was dangerous, un-American, and designed to sow fear in vulnerable communities.
This is a victory for democracy, and is owed to the relentless advocates who fought back against this dangerous political stunt from the start. https://t.co/mxfmxPmcgm
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) July 2, 2019
Will you allow non-citizens to vote in our Election ?
— ?? David ?? (@JIL153) July 2, 2019
Let’s ask that at the next debate.
Related:
Huge if true: DOJ email confirms the 2020 census form will be printed without the citizenship question https://t.co/f6IiDGWAsT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 2, 2019
