{"id":32920,"date":"2018-03-27T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32920"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:05:17","slug":"common-sense-has-left-the-building-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32920","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Has Left The Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hill<\/a> posted an article today stating that a group of Democrats<\/a> led by Eric Holder<\/a> will go to court to stop the U.S. Census from asking people if they are citizens of the U.S. Think about that for a minute. The census is used to determine the number of representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives<\/a>. These representatives represent citizens of the United States<\/a>. Therefore a state with a large number of non-citizens reported on the census could actually get more representatives in the House of Representatives than they are actually legally entitled to. As more people leave California<\/a> and the number of illegal immigrants increase, it is less likely that California will lose representatives as have other states with decreasing populations. Since illegals vote in California (against the U.S. Constitution<\/a>, but it happens), there will be more Democrats (Hispanic illegals tend to vote Democratic–article here<\/a>). So Eric Holder and his friends are suing in a blatant attempt to get more Democrats in the House of Representatives. Makes perfect sense to me.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

“We will litigate to stop the Administration from moving forward with this irresponsible decision,” Holder said<\/a>. “The addition of a citizenship question to the census questionnaire is a direct attack on our representative democracy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holder’s announcement came a day after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross<\/a><\/span> said that the Census Bureau would reinstate a question<\/a> about individuals’ citizenship status on the 2020 census, despite objections from Democrats on the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions<\/a><\/span>, the Justice Department<\/a> has argued that including such a question would help it enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act<\/a>, a notion\u00a0Holder rejected.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Make no mistake\u00a0\u2014 this decision is motivated purely by politics,”\u00a0Holder\u00a0said. “In deciding to add this question without even testing its effects, the Administration is departing from decades of census policy and ignoring the warnings of census experts.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

California Attorney General<\/a> Xavier Becerra<\/a><\/span> (D) also said late Monday that he would file a lawsuit<\/a> over the Commerce Department’s decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We’re prepared to do what we must to protect\u00a0California\u00a0from a deficient Census,” Becerra said in a statement. “Including a citizenship question on the 2020 census is not just a bad idea \u2014 it is illegal.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

First of all, we are a representative republic–not a democracy. Eric Holder is a lawyer–shouldn’t he know that? The California Attorney General also seems rather ignorant of the law–why is it illegal to ask a person if they are a citizen if they are living here? Shouldn’t a representative republic represent the citizens of the country?<\/p>\n

The bottom line here is simple–the Democrats are losing the center of their voting base. The party has shifted left, and the American public has remained pretty much in the center. The Democrats need the illegal immigrant votes. That is the reason they are trying to make them citizens and that is the reason they are trying to get them counted in the census.<\/p>\n

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