kyzr
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I can interpret that as "only count taxpayers/citizens"
You could, but you would be wrong since non-citizens pay taxes.
Try this, look up the phrase "no taxation without representation", it will understand why non-citizens are counted
The Boston Tea Party has nothing to do with the 2020 census.
How about what Trump says, "no census without a citizenship question"?
The concept of "no taxation without representation" did not die after the Boston Tea party, it should still be alive and well today for anyone that claims to be an American.
He would have to violate the Constitution to stop the Census. Personally I find the POTUS violating the Constitution to be a bad thing...how about you?
Not stop the census, just postpone it until the citizenship question is resolved. The Trump admin needs to fine tune their arguments. Trump can stop the forms from being printed. Maybe Trump needs to send Barr to the USSC? Its a simple matter of reading the US Constitution.
Trump seeks 2020 census delay after Supreme Court blocks citizenship question
Once again, Fed Law dictates when the Census is undertaken. To change that date legally Congress would need to approve of the change.
It is not up to Trump, it is simple matter of reading the US Constitution, and the US Constitution says everyone is counted, not just citizens.
Reading the Constitution? Please read the red font below. Its not that complex.
Trump is right to delay the census until the Constitution is followed as it was in previous censuses:
“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.”
— U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV, section 2