Kavanaugh's 1st vote: "to include citizenship question in census?"

UsualName said:
What we have to ask ourselves is will this question, in current political atmosphere, fulfill the constitutional mandate of the census or will it lessen the count?
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No, that is not the question at all, at least not for the Supreme Court. The only relevant question is, is it within the Constitutional authority of the Executive Branch? As was also the case with the muslim ban, the answer is clearly affirmative. In fact, there is no respectable legal argument for the contrary proposition. That case rests purely on policy preferences and politics.
 
Of course. Obvious point to business people. Great point to make to a lefty.

Just about every Corporation pays income taxes on the money they earn (or records it as a pass through to a tax payer) . Do illegal aliens? Taxation and Contract formation are some of the main reasons our laws treat corporations as legal entities.

AAAintheBeltway said:
There is a long common law history of treating corporations as distinct legal entities, with their own rights and responsibilities. There is no such history of treating illegal aliens as citizens. That is a concept the democrats came up with in the past few years when actual citizens stopped voting for them.
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UsualName said:
What we have to ask ourselves is will this question, in current political atmosphere, fulfill the constitutional mandate of the census or will it lessen the count?
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You chose the questions you like.

Try also asking whether the constitutional mandate may require lessening the count by eliminating illegals.
 
UsualName said:
No. The intent was to just get a head count of all residents as a base congressional apportionment. SCOTUS ruled congress can gather other “necessary and proper” statistics in like 1900 or so, I believe.
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Ok, so your interpretation of what the founders were looking for is different than mine. What a surprise.

UsualName said:
So in discrimination cases we often have to show a pattern of mistreatment. The GOP has shown a pattern in their efforts to limit the vote and skew federal apportionment.

Moving the question from the long form to the short form will result is an apportionment that does not accurately reflect the resident count of non citizens.
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The GOP has shown desire to making sure legal citizens are the only ones voting. I'm not sure how you can see this as "showing a pattern in their efforts to limit the vote and skew federal apportionment".

In a society where there is very real infringement on the rights of citizens being doled out illegally (key word here) to non-citizens, adding the citizenship questionnaire to the census is a perfectly logical and reasonable action.
 
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