Harvard's Laurence Tribe says the census fight is not over.

[alwaysinasnit]

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/harvard-laws-laurence-tribe-warns-the-census-fight-isnt-over-heres-the-new-way-trump-wants-to-rig-elections-for-a-decade/

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But as Harvard Law professor and constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe warned, the fight is not over. In fact, the seeds of Trump’s next, and possibly even worse, scheme to rig American democracy was hidden in Trump’s announcement of his alternate proposal for collecting citizenship data.

“Some states may want to draw state and local legislative districts based upon the voter eligible population,” said Trump. “Indeed, the same day the Supreme Court handed down the census decision, it also said it would not review certain types of districting decisions, which could encourage states to make such decisions based on voter eligibility.”

This meaning is clear: Trump’s purpose in collecting citizenship data is to encourage states to draw districts based on the “voter eligible population,” rather than the total population, which is historically how every state has done so. As Tribe explained, the consequences of that could be huge:

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Evenwel v. Abbott was a Supreme Court decision in 2015, in which the justices unanimously ruled that it is constitutional for states to use the total population in legislative apportionment. Crucially though, the court did not rule that it was mandatory to do so — and Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito wrote that they believe states are free to choose to only count eligible voters if they wish. All of this hints that if GOP-controlled states decide to take up Trump on his suggestion and only count eligible voters for district lines, the federal courts will not stand in their way.

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[mr_lebowski]

1. Remember how earlier today I was saying House Dems need to pass a law preventing this

Sort of thing? To the extent that they CAN pass something, anyway?

Just askin' ...

[alwaysinasnit]

2. Agree. And damn, it always seems that Dems have to be on defense against all the shit

the GOPers shell out.

[tableturner]

3. Well, we MUST be ethical, moral, and civil, you know......

[vsrazdem]

4. Why would states do that. It will only hurt them in getting federal funding.

It doesn't make any sense to me.

[former9thward]

5. They wouldn't.

It would also result in less congressional seats and less electoral votes. It is silly speculation by Tribe to get attention.