And it will have bugger all to do with elections. Or House apportionment. Section 2 of the 14th Amendment has entered the chat.Q: There's gonna be a new bill called Make American Elections Great Again, forcing the Census Bureau to redo the census to get an account of how many Americans w/proof of citizenship are in our country, redistricting some House districts. Thoughts?
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Until the Roberts Court finds some way to rewrite that part of the 14th, too.Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.The phrase "counting the whole number of persons in each State" has traditionally been understood to include non-citizens for purposes of apportionment.
What is “proof of citizenship,” anyway? A birth certificate? Obama had one of those….
Oh, from what I see the Roberts Court hardly has to find a way, they just make something up from medieval English law to do it. It's like the legal equivalent of third rate science fiction with them.
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