On Tuesday the Supreme Court said the Trump administration can wrap up the census, approving a proper and timely deadline to get an accurate count. The Left wanted an extended deadline to give them as much time as possible to slip illegal aliens into the final number. That would increase Democrat representation in the House and thus electoral votes for blue states.
SCOTUS Rules Trump Administration Can End 2020 Census Count Nowhttps://t.co/dQLlzDryuv
— Jeremy Frankel (@FrankelJeremy) October 14, 2020
The Wall Street Journal provides details,”The Supreme Court on Tuesday approved Trump administration plans to end the 2020 census before a Oct. 31 deadline, suspending lower court orders requiring the decennial count to continue according to a schedule announced in April. The eight-member court gave no reasons for its unsigned order, which was issued over the dissent of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.”
Sotomayor opined, “Only recently have officials begun to claim that the Bureau might yet be able to meet the statutory deadline, and even then, their story keeps changing. Marginalized populations and people in hard to count areas, such as rural and tribal lands…will disproportionately bear the burden of any inaccuracies.”
And there it is, “marginalized populations.” That’s leftspeak for “anybody who shouldn’t be counted but we need to count to increase Democrat numbers.”
The usual suspects were irate, “Trusted career census officials outlined an extended counting period in order to achieve the full enumeration of all people living in the United States, as called for in the Constitution,” said League of Women Voters Chief Executive Officer Virginia Kase. “The senseless back and forth, the endless court challenges, and the refusal to comply with court orders are all part of this administration’s attempts to undermine an accurate count.”
WSJ: “The long-planned census field operations, in which enumerators visit households that have failed to complete questionnaires, initially were to end July 31. The coronavirus pandemic upended those plans, forcing officials to suspend door-to-door visits in March. To make up for lost time and other obstacles, the Census Bureau in April adopted a new schedule where field operations would end Oct. 31. In August, however, officials said they could wrap things up by Sept. 30, in the hope of delivering data to President Trump by Dec. 31.”
As of Monday, the Census Bureau said that 99.9% of 147 million housing units had been counted. About two-thirds of households took the census by mail, online or phone. The remainder were counted by a quarter-million temps who went door to door.
This piece was written by David Kamioner on October 14, 2020. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com and is used by permission.
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