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Excellent thread by @hansilowang.bsky.social on President Trump’s unconstitutional proposal.
But #FactsFirst: He has no powers afforded to him in the Constitution nor in US Code to alter the timing of the decennial Census, nor the humans — every person — it counts.
But #FactsFirst: He has no powers afforded to him in the Constitution nor in US Code to alter the timing of the decennial Census, nor the humans — every person — it counts.
THREAD: There are a lot of unanswered questions 12 hours after President Trump — who, according to the Constitution, has no final authority over the census — released a social media post calling for unprecedented changes to how the government produces data that forms the foundation of U.S. democracy
Trump wants a new U.S. census to exclude people here illegally. It'd be unprecedented
Trump is calling for a "new" census that excludes people in the U.S. without legal status. The 14th Amendment requires the "whole number of persons in each state" in a key set of census results.
www.npr.org
August 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Excellent thread by @hansilowang.bsky.social on President Trump’s unconstitutional proposal.
But #FactsFirst: He has no powers afforded to him in the Constitution nor in US Code to alter the timing of the decennial Census, nor the humans — every person — it counts.
But #FactsFirst: He has no powers afforded to him in the Constitution nor in US Code to alter the timing of the decennial Census, nor the humans — every person — it counts.