This is Huge!

By Rich Kozlovich

Early this morning I posted my commentary on the Texas gerrymandering issue, and made it clear the outrage and hypocrisy by Democrats was the least of their worries.  Little did I know how prescient that was. 

 President Trump has now ordered a new census, and has made it clear only America citizens will be counted, ending a significant number of House of Representative seats for the Democrats. 

Can the President legally do such a thing? Yes, he can!  As the Heritage Foundation has reported:

In a shocking report that has not received the attention it deserves, the U.S. Census Bureau recently admitted that its 2020 Census count of the American population was incorrect in at least 14 states.

 And those mistakes were costly to certain states in terms of congressional representation, number of electors, and money those states are likely to receive from the federal government during the next decade. To put the scope of these mistakes into perspective, contrast the errors in the Census Bureau’s latest recount (the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey, or PES) with the recount from a decade ago (the 2010 Post-Enumeration Survey)—in which there was a net overcount of a mere 0.01 percent (36,000 people), a statistically insignificant error.

As explained below, as a result of these errors, Florida did not receive two additional congressional seats and Texas did not receive one more congressional seat. Meanwhile, two other states, Minnesota and Rhode Island, each retained a congressional seat that they should have lost, and Colorado gained a new seat to which it was rightfully not entitled.

Trump tried to end counting illegal aliens in the past and faced court challenges over that.  If that happens again, and I have no doubt it will, and the courts find against him, he just may embrace the Jacksonian solution.  Ignore them.  

Update: While a mid-decade census is legal it is "intended, among other things, to be used to re-allocate spending in government programs, not to reapportion Congress. So, contrary to some speculation, nothing the administration does now can impact the 2026 election."  As for not counting illegal aliens that's also problematic.  Follow the link to see the reason why.