Summary
Trump revoked Biden’s executive order that affirmed the inclusion of all residents in census results, regardless of immigration status.
This action clears the path for potential changes in how the 2030 census will be conducted, including the possibility of excluding non-citizens from apportionment counts.
The Supreme Court has yet to rule on the constitutionality of such exclusions.
oh look. another reason people should have taken that last opportunity to make a difference with their vote.
Blaming the voters instead of the politicians is the same thing as making excuses for the politicians.
Blaming the voters instead of the politicians is ignoring that less than half of the voters voted for him.
This one isn’t worth anyone’s time worrying about right now, except for the proper advocacy groups who will challenge it right away, where it might get to the Supreme Court during this Presidential term, or might not. He tried to pull this when he was in charge of the last Census, and was blocked in the courts. Which means it can be challenged right up to the point where they formalize the questions a few months beforehand, so whatever he decides now can be changed by the next President.
For those of you who are about to post “We can’t even be sure he will leave office when the Constitution says he will”, you’re right, of course. But if that happens the Census will be so low on the list of how we are fucked up that it will end up being a footnote, so it’s not worth worrying about in either case.
