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Thursday, August 07, 2025

The attempt would likely face a flurry of legal and logistical challenges should the administration move ahead with it.

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"People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

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-- CNBC (@cnbc.com) Aug 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Another piece of their plan to rig the midterms.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-07 11:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Didn't he ---- up the 2020 one?

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-07 11:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A full census has never been conducted mid-decade in this manner, nor has one ever excluded noncitizens from the count.

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Isn't not counting the non-citizens going to rip the hell out of many Red districts?

I know it will this one.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-07 12:38 PM | Reply

@#3 ... Isn't not counting the non-citizens going to rip the hell out of many Red districts? ...

That all depends with how the Trump admin tallies the results.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-07 12:54 PM | Reply

... it will be based on the "information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024." ...

What does that statement mean?


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-07 01:59 PM | Reply

The Buffoon tried this in 2020 it was ultimately shot down by the Supreme Court largely on procedural grounds. www.scotusblog.com

Conducting a census before the midterms is problematic in that the Census Act requires the proposed questions be submitted to Congress two years before the census date. www.census.gov

Excluding noncitizens contravenes the Fourteenth Amendment Section 2 first sentence.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.
constitution.congress.gov

#6 | Posted by et_al at 2025-08-07 02:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Will Pres Trump obey legal precedent?


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-07 10:26 PM | Reply

Wish them into the cornfield, Donald!

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-07 11:20 PM | Reply

Illegal aliens are not people, they're sub-humans.

Ask any Republican if you don't believe me.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-08 07:54 AM | Reply

The 2020 census cost $14B and took years of preparation. Did this hare-brained idea get blessed by Leon and the DOGE Boys? Asking for a country...

#10 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-08 08:24 AM | Reply

The 2020 census cost $14B and took years of preparation. Did this hare-brained idea get blessed by Leon and the DOGE Boys? Asking for a country..

Trump will just make up questions and put out a poll through his Truth Social account and just take those results. Saves bigly.

#11 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-08-08 10:26 AM | Reply

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