He's not going directly violate a Supreme Court Ruling. That's a good way to get impeached. By today, the administration was going formulate a response for the court changing their reasoning for the need for the question. If he get's a go from the court he will issue an order to add the question to the census.Our President is considering using an executive order to add the citizenship question to the census.
What happens if Trump issues an EO demanding that the citizenship question be included? Who can stop him besides the USSC?
I'm hoping that Trump issues that EO today.
This whole thing is so damn silly. Republicans are hoping that a sufficient number of illegal immigrants that they believe fill out census forms will not respond out of fear of the citizenship question thus giving them a means to reduce funding to some states and possibility reduce representation in the House. Of course this is a long shot since there are only about 11 million undocumented immigrants scatter all over the country and many of them have never returned census forms. Also, since most illegal immigrants are here on an expired visa, they will answer no to being a citizens and specify they are on a visa. The form does not collect visa numbers. If the goverment actually tried to take action based on the citizenship question, it would be back in the courts.
Since the census will not be mailed out till March 2020, the new president can make this question optional thus rendering it of no use except for statistical research. Even it all of the above goes as republicans hope, it could well backfire because there are districts controlled by republicans with a large Hispanic population.
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