{"id":61234,"date":"2025-10-12T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61234"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:54:41","slug":"common-sense-has-arrived-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61234","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/aflegal.org\/press-release\/america-first-legal-spearheads-landmark-legal-challenge-to-unconstitutional-2020-census\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNXfONleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhKVO6eJrHgcfLOjKrxPHT6kKCe2Vo5CP7oYLXWwLGIRGzg40Iu9IYpwS2K6_aem_EVCDXHjUwI6haWn9QIudLQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America First Legal<\/a> posted a Press Release about a lawsuit challenging the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span class=\"america-first-legal\">America First Legal<\/span> (AFL), in partnership with Weber, Crabb &amp; Wein, P.A., is leading a landmark lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, alleging that the 2020 Census was unconstitutional and violated federal law. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two individuals and two organizations, alleges that the Census Bureau relied on unlawful statistical methods, distorted congressional representation, and diluted the votes of lawful citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The U.S. Constitution requires an <i>actual count<\/i> of <i>every person every ten years<\/i> to decide representation in Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/13\/141\">Federal law<\/a> explicitly prohibits the use of \u201cstatistical sampling\u201d or other methods that risk inaccurate results.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article continues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In 2020, the Census Bureau ignored this mandate and instead relied on two deeply flawed methods: Group Quarters Imputation and Differential Privacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Group Quarters Imputation: Fabricated residents at dormitories, nursing homes, and other institutions that were empty on Census Day. In some cases, individuals were even double-counted \u2014 once at home and again at facilities they had already left.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Differential Privacy: Injected statistical errors throughout the Census data, producing negative and illogical values and disproportionate errors that punished rural communities in particular.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The use of these flawed statistical methods violated Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the Fourteenth Amendment, and 13 U.S.C. \u00a7 195. AFL\u2019s lawsuit alleges that through these methods, the Census Bureau skewed state redistricting and caused congressional seats to shift, distorting representation in Florida and ultimately altering political power across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Instead of counting real people at their residences, as required by law, the Bureau fabricated population counts and injected statistical \u201cnoise\u201d into the results. This was not a simple technical error \u2014 it was a direct assault on representation. By fabricating people out of thin air, the Census Bureau effectively stole votes from some states and handed them to others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>These manipulations violated the Constitution\u2019s command to count the \u201cwhole number of persons,\u201d ignored federal statutes that ban statistical shortcuts, and replaced the rule of law with bureaucratic gamesmanship. The result was a Congress that may not fully reflect the true will of the American people. Representation in Congress cannot be based on models, estimates, or political preferences \u2014 it must be based on reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit deals with the methods of the census. It does not seem to deal with the question of whether or not illegal aliens or non-citizens should be counted in the census.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, America First Legal posted a Press Release about a lawsuit challenging the 2020 census. The article reports: America First Legal (AFL), in partnership with Weber, Crabb &amp; Wein, P.A., is leading a landmark lawsuit filed in the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11889,17075,18607,8651],"class_list":["post-61234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2020-census","tag-america-first-legal-afl","tag-statistical-sampling","tag-the-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61235,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61234\/revisions\/61235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}