President Donald Trump rallied his supporters in New Mexico on Monday and talked up his chances of turning the state red as part of his efforts to expand his grip on the Electoral College in next year’s presidential election. (Sept. 17)
Another controversial Trump administration policy had its day in the Supreme Court today: Adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
The issue at hand was whether Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, had the right to add the question. And whether it matters that the question may lead to a massive undercounting of immigrants.
Trump has the advantage of having two of his appointees — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — on the bench. And by the end of the 80-minute arguments, it seemed they and the other conservatives were ready to side with the administration.
The Census takes place every 10 years, as required by the Constitution. The results are used to determine how many congressional seats, and how many Electoral College votes, each state gets. They also help determine how almost $900 billion in federal funding is allocated.
The 2010 Census asked 10 basic questions of every household in America: How many people lived there, how old they were, what their race, ethnicity, and gender were. It didn’t ask whether people were citizens or not. The government did ask a citizenship question in every census between 1890 and 1950. It was taken out by 1960.
But last year, the Bureau announced it was bringing the question back. It claimed the Justice Department needed the citizenship data to properly enforce the Voting Rights Act. But civil rights groups thought Ross’s real motive was to drive down immigrant participation. So they sued and won at lower-level courts in New York and California.
With surveys scheduled to be printed this summer, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
There are calls to end the Electoral College, lower the voting age to 16, allow non-citizens to vote, and to pack the Supreme Court with more and partisan judges. What is happening here? Well, it would seem if you can’t win on the merit of ideas, then all you need to do is radically change the system.
CrossTalking with Jen Kerns, Wendy Osefo, and Bruce Fein.
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Donald Trump is wrapping up his first week in office as the 45th president of the US – and the country is deeply divided. Millions are already calling for his impeachment, as violent protests take place across the nation. The new president is also at war with the media, and the conflict not likely to die down any time soon. Will Trump manage to rally the people’s support throughout his first term? Can the continued backlash force the Electoral College system to be reformed? We ask Ralph Nader, veteran activist, consumer advocate, and former third-party and independent presidential candidate.
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It’s been over a month since the US election, but it seems some Democrats are refusing to admit defeat to president-elect Donald Trump. His opponents have tried many tactics to overturn the result, from blaming the FBI to demanding a recount.
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Following Donald Trump’s victory an elector from a state the President-elect won, says he’s faced pressure, and even death threats, to change his decision in the Electoral College vote later this month. A youth vice-chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, Michael Banerian described to us the messages he received.
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