NEW: A bill by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for a new census and round of congressional redistricting before the 2026 midterm election and excluding non-US citizens living in the states from a census count that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”
That would explain the heavy presence of ICE in blue states.
Well, well. She hates our Constitution too.
From the top down, MAGA ignores the Constitution. SCOTUS ignores it, Congress ignores it. The Executive doesn't even acknowledge it, except the whole Article II business.
Yawn, not going to happen
Not even remotely operationally possible. 😂🤣🙄
Just push the big red button on the Census Countamatic 5000, amirite?
GOP view the constitution as a roadblock between them and the totalitarian rule they want so very desperately.
Umm... non citizens cannot vote.
The purpose is to reduce the voting power of areas where noncitizens live—generally big, diverse cities in conservatives' estimation—so as to further stack the deck in their own favor.
I don't know what amount of care you put into this wording, but I just wanted to thank you for stating the clear language of the 14th amendment every time you skeet about the Census and efforts to violate that amendment. I am alarmed by people going out of their way to write about it differently.
Thank you for reading. I've had a lot of practice going back to the first Trump administration, when I first started reporting on this.
The ppl demand the *whole number of legal persons* ALL get a vote in their elections Voting is OUR right! Protected by the constitution. 1 person= 1 vote not this BS gerrymandering Until the ppl of this country fight these fucks with everything they got, they will steal this country permanently
That’s a lot of unconstitutional shit in one bill.
2. Greene's bill is the latest effort by Republican lawmakers to exclude millions of people living in the states without U.S. citizenship from census counts that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state"
3. The Constitution has required a census every 10 years since the first U.S. count in 1790 to reapportion House seats among the states. It's not clear whether the results of a census in 2025 or 2026 (assuming it could be carried out in time) could be used for reapportionment, as I reported in 2020:
4. Under current federal law, the results of a mid-decade census "shall not be used for apportionment." Greene’s bill is a bid to reset the census schedule so that once-a-decade counting starts whenever the bill is enacted in 2025 or 2026, and “mid-decade” counting would take place in 2030 or 2031
Laws are for losers.....amirite?
5. Putting the legal questions aside, Greene's bill also raises a lot of practical questions. The Census Bureau is in the middle of a more-than-10-year process for #2030Census preparations, which includes research efforts such as the "2026 Census Test," while dealing with funding uncertainty
6. "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state..." - 14th Amendment on who should be counted in census apportionment counts used to redistribute U.S. House seats and Electoral College votes
7. The 14th Amendment's "Indians not taxed" clause no longer excluded some Indigenous people from congressional apportionment counts by 1940, when the Census Bureau began trying to include all Indigenous residents of the United States. From Carol Lujan: www.census.gov/library/work...
8. By the way, data from the census citizenship question that Greene's bill would require could allow state/local governments to draw voting districts that don't account for children and noncitizens, a radical departure from current standard redistricting. Its legality is an open question at SCOTUS
Great, let's also add in a DNA test so we can exclude people whose parents are closely related, should trim her district by about half.
How many Amendments are getting violated with this cockamamie legislation?
This would mean Texas would have far fewer reps.
That would require a Constitutional amendment. Not a bill.