Fox & Friends disappointed when legal analyst explains why census question is unconstitutional

[DonViejo]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/fox-friends-hosts-disappointed-legal-analyst-explains-trump-census-question-unconstitutional/

[HopeAgain]

1. Couldn't get past the first 30 seconds...

I'll take your word for it, though.

[Honeycombe8]

2. THE RELEVANT PART STARTS AT 2:10. nt

[Honeycombe8]

3. It sounds complicated, whether they can do that. Sounds like they can....

but people don't have to answer.

They're trying to get a head count of eligible voters. I suppose they could take the data, and count just the ones that answered the question, and answered it in the affirmative...and that would be the eligible voter count. That wouldn't be accurate. But there is no current way to be accurate, now, as far as I know.

I never gave that any thought before. An interesting topic.

[DrunkInTheAfternoon]

4. He never said the question was unconstitutional

He did say that people have the right not to answer. But, that's a different point altogether...

[samnsara]

5. do we have to answer the question? we were thinking of checking 'NO' on that item..

[rickford66]

6. Michelle Bachmann was encouraging people not to respond to the 2010 census.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-bachmann-refuses-to-fill-out-2010-census/

Bachmann, a Republican, said her family will only be indicating the number of people in the household, because "the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that."


I guess it was OK then.

[lapfog_1]

7. The next move is for the Repuke Congress to tell the Census Bureau

to reject forms not completely filled out.

That would have the same effect as the first objective which is to scare immigrants (legal or otherwise) to simply not answer any questions.

By not counting or scaring off some people, representation and federal dollars to those districts will be less. Since most if not ALL of the people not counted actually pay taxes, this is "taxation without representation". A phrase that I believe I heard before in some history class.