Not how it was killed, Congress has no authority here. SCOTUS killed it.
The problem is that the Constitution is clear that the census must count everyone, not just citizens (which makes sense - a civilized country knows how many non-citizens are inside its borders). Then Ross, who whatever his merits as a SecCommerce had apparently slept through his civics class, tried to use the citizenship question to discourage non-citizens from responding - this put him on the wrong side of the Constitutional duty to count everyone and SCOTUS rightly slapped him down.
If we want to change it, the right way would be: a) get an accurate count of non-citizens, which Elon’s tweet above isn’t helping with. b) Work on setting the number of representatives (and hence electoral votes) per state based on number of citizens instead of “persons”. This might require a Constitutional amendment but that’s the same lift as changing the Constitutional definition of the census.
Thanks for the clarification. I believe there will be amendment coming along these lines. Of course we want to know how many people are in our districts plus, communities need to know what their populations are made up of. It's the traitorous DS that wants to change how that noncitizen population gets represented.
Not how it was killed, Congress has no authority here. SCOTUS killed it.
The problem is that the Constitution is clear that the census must count everyone, not just citizens (which makes sense - a civilized country knows how many non-citizens are inside its borders). Then Ross, who whatever his merits as a SecCommerce had apparently slept through his civics class, tried to use the citizenship question to discourage non-citizens from responding - this put him on the wrong side of the Constitutional duty to count everyone and SCOTUS rightly slapped him down. If we want to change it, the right way would be: a) get an accurate count of non-citizens, which Elon’s tweet above isn’t helping with. b) Work on setting the number of representatives (and hence electoral votes) per state based on number of citizens instead of “persons”. This might require a Constitutional amendment but that’s the same lift as changing the Constitutional definition of the census.
Thanks for the clarification. I believe there will be amendment coming along these lines. Of course we want to know how many people are in our districts plus, communities need to know what their populations are made up of. It's the traitorous DS that wants to change how that noncitizen population gets represented.