How To Rig The Census For Fun And Profit And White Supremacy

[Winehole23]

2030 Census shenanigans seem to have commenced


JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census (https://bsky.app/hashtag/2030Census) Advisory Committee has been terminated (https://bsky.app/profile/hansilowang.bsky.social/post/3ljkxywxnz224) by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ln72v57ivz2g46uqf4xxqiuh)

. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...

[Winehole23]

there's a notable monthly jobs reports that comes from one of these surveys

got chainsawed


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:eijqdygh72wuei7faamrclpc/bafkreifmbpvdfwhibhf2d75lznzujlgyl7l4gmwqsxiqugq5h ti66iarz4@jpeghttps://www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/OIGPublications/OIG-25-013-I_Final_Report.pdf

[Winehole23]

Repugs in SCOTUS today trying to overturn 200 years of Census counting all "persons"

We'll see if the corrupt rightwing Repug SCOTUS

drops the "balls and strikes" charade,

disrespects stare decisis,

ignores the TEXT of the Constitution, and

activist-ly excludes non-citizens.




Shoring up racist/xenophobic bona fides. I'll be surprised if SCOTUS grants the government's prayer, the Congressional Record makes clear that Congress knew what it doing when it instituted a head count.Senile grandpa wants the US Census for the first time ever to exclude non-citizens...the Article I, Sec 2 and 14th Amendment both call for the "whole number of persons" to be counted for purposes of taxation and apportionment

Trump would undo a feature that goes all the way back to the 1787 Constitution

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eijqdygh72wuei7faamrclpc/bafkreib43jrb6v6zbmiitl7y6ppjk7t6mef4qarfkplaumjg3 s6iokyyvi@jpeg

[Winehole23]

not counting all Texans and Floridians (as well as other red states) could backfire in apportionment

[Winehole23]

The Hofeller trove exposes GOP lies to to the court:

https://twitter.com/JonathanTopaz/status/1195127456287592448?s=19


Hofeller files posted online by his daughter:

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/785672201/deceased-gop-strategists-daughter-makes-files-public-that-republicans-wanted-sea


Still relevant.

Ratfucking the US Census is a whole nother level of constitutional hardball.the main limitations to the intended fuckery are corruption and incompetence