The census definition is even less vague than the birthright citizenship amendment, if that's possible. But I guess we needn't worry. Some "democratic leader" somewhere will pen a strongly-worded letter while any challenge will get denied on the notorious "shadow docket."

... the 500,000 enumerators hired to randomly haul non-white citizens to detention for a week or two before they say "whoopsie" and release them. That way they ensure a high percentage of non-white citizens, like their undocumented neighbors, are too terrorized to answer their door.

Again ?

Article 1 section 2
Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution mandates that an apportionment of representatives among the states must be carried out every 10 years



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Plus, I’m not sure it would hurt us. I would think it would hurt some red states too, like Texas and Florida. I guess someone will do a quick study.

1) If they change to counting citizens only California and other states might lose a handful of seats and or electoral votes

2) Estimates for the 2030 census already show the GOP picking up 10+ electoral votes and seats


https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/big-changes-ahead-voting-maps-after-next-census

There's no way it would pass. And it of course is blatantly unconstitutional.

But I'm not sure how it would "drastically" alter the electoral map

The six states with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in 2022 were:

California (1.8 million)
Texas (1.6 million)
Florida (1.2 million)
New York (650,000)
New Jersey (475,000)
Illinois (400,000)

Check out this analysis from Pew of the impact it would have had if applied to the 2020 Census. Doesn't look like a drastic change in apportionment to me.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/07/24/how-removing-unauthorized-immigrants-from-census-statistics-could-affect-house-reapportionment/

If Trump ordered the Census for 2026... we'd be down 10+ electoral votes.

That statement is blatantly false as shown by the Pew analysis I posted. Shifting apportionment based on the Census is going to happen anyway and this bill which is supposedly so "dangerous" doesn't change that. But as was pointed out, the bill is blatantly unconstitutional, it has no chance of passing the Senate and Trump can not and will not unilaterally change the Census date.

And SCOTUS decides what is legal. UNFORTUNATELY.

First of all, if that is your concern ,then why did you post the article? The article was about legislation to remove non-citizens from Census counts. The idea of an "immediate" Census was PART OF THAT LEGISLATION! If Trump thought he could call a Census any time he wanted, he would never have bothered with the legislation to begin with. In case you haven't noticed, the Republicans don't do legislation any more. They don't bother with legislation for something Trump thinks he can do by Executive Order.

Most importantly, a Census can't just happen happen without any planning. In fact, it takes over 10 years to do all the work necessary to be able to conduct the Census. Work on the 2030 Census began in 2019. It would literally be impossible to conduct a Census in 2026 - there is no infrastructure in place to do it.

Some people like the person who wrote that article seem determined to freak out over every single insane idea some idiot Republican comes up with - no matter how unserious it is - and ignore that it is obvious there is no chance whatsoever of it happening. I swear, if a Republican announced plans to to block out the sun (like Mr. Burns in the Simpsons), those people would take it seriously and write their panic articles about how big a threat this was.