DOWN FOR THE COUNT!
THE CENSUS IS A BARE-KNUCKLE POLITICAL BRAWL – AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN
The 2020 Census hasn’t even started – but it has already kicked off spirited fights.
ByWalter Reynolds
A Supreme Court case, decided last year, blocked a Trump administration proposal to ask every respondent if they were a citizen. Meanwhile, there are three pending federal court suits in which plaintiffs for civil rights groups and one city claim that the administration has not done sufficient planning or provided enough funding for Census 2020. Census 2020 is far from the first census to set off bitter political fights. One hundred years ago, results from Census 1920 initiated a decadelong struggle about how to allocate a state’s seats in Congress. The political arguments were so bitter that Congress eventually decided they would not use Census 1920 results.
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Could this happen again?
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