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Donald Trump Just Said He Wants to Delay the 2020 Census, and Now Everyone's Giving Him a Civics Lesson
27 June 2019
US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Make America Great Again" rally at Aaron Bessant Amphitheater in Panama City Beach, Florida on May 8, 2019. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court won't immediately allow a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, it announced on Thursday. Though the final fate of the ruling will likely be in front of the court at a later date, the government has stressed to the court that time is running out, and that the census questionnaire must be finalized by the end of the month.
President Donald Trump—a staunch supporter of adding the citizenship question to the census—announced that he'd push to delay the census all together "no matter how long," until the Supreme Court rules on the question once and for all.
<p></p><div id="3594b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4GTFF61574873297"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144298731887628288" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a v… https://t.co/wxMiGvZujI</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1144298731887628288">1561657052.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><div id="c8311" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="B4556V1574873297"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144298734311878657" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">.....United States Supreme Court is given additional information from which it can make a final and decisive decisi… https://t.co/lr9ZVghGl9</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1144298734311878657">1561657052.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p>There's just one problem: The United States Constitution, specifically Article one, Section two, which states:</p><blockquote>"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective Numbers ...within every subsequent Term of ten Years."</blockquote><p>The census is constitutionally mandated to go out in April of 2020, but Trump appears to think that "every subsequent term of ten years" is somehow negotiable.</p><p>People are pointing out that that is not the case.</p><p><div data-conversation-spotlight=""></div></p><p></p><div id="8e6a0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="BB13E41574873297"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144331231560998912" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@realDonaldTrump The Constitution says otherwise, President Very Stable Genius.</div> — Anita Creamer (@Anita Creamer)<a href="https://twitter.com/AnitaCreamer/statuses/1144331231560998912">1561664800.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="e00e2" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="GP4WGQ1574873297"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144329699255914496" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse Read Article I, Section 2 of the US Constitution, pal. Ten years. Every ten years.</div> — Anne Cirelli (@Anne Cirelli)<a href="https://twitter.com/AnneCirelli/statuses/1144329699255914496">1561664435.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="fa441" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="BS5B6S1574873297"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144329870500978688" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@realDonaldTrump The Constitution does get in your way a lot.</div> — Duff Pickering (@Duff Pickering)<a href="https://twitter.com/duffpickering/statuses/1144329870500978688">1561664476.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="9d7b1" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="BTO2031574873297"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144306928035794949" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@realDonaldTrump Article 1.2: "The actual Enumeration shall be made ... within every subsequent Term of ten Years"… https://t.co/XfpoI4CRkG</div> — David Rothschild (@David Rothschild)<a href="https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/statuses/1144306928035794949">1561659006.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="c9540" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6GGC9V1574873297"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144332964932784128" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@realDonaldTrump Mostly because it is in the constitution that you claim to love so much</div> — Cole Clark (@Cole Clark)<a href="https://twitter.com/dcclark0506/statuses/1144332964932784128">1561665214.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><p>Trump's disregard for the constitution has many worried for what it could foretell.</p><p></p><div id="3b755" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="IPGJTH1574873298"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144320553878249473" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">this is how y'all fail us.
you could have easily tweeted that this won't/can't happen, no matter how much he says… https://t.co/HaChZltoTv</div> — jenifer daniels 🧜🏾♀️ (@jenifer daniels 🧜🏾♀️)<a href="https://twitter.com/jentrification/statuses/1144320553878249473">1561662255.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><div id="d2e40" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="XCM71N1574873298"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1144305756981911552" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">POWER GRAB ALERT!
The once-a-decade census is prescribed by the Constitution. If we let Trump mess with that, who… https://t.co/HEViVkpGiB</div> — MN Constituent (@MN Constituent)<a href="https://twitter.com/MNConstituent/statuses/1144305756981911552">1561658727.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p>Gulp.</p>
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