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Testimony before Committee on House Administration United States House of Representatives May 16, 2024 Hans A. von Spakovsky Senior Legal Fellow Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies The Institute for Constitutional Government The Heritage Foundation
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Aliens. they will be gathering identifying information in the process, and federal databases to get a fool and accurate picture of the population of the united states which is what the constitution requires under the enumeration clause. carley: is this a political win for democrats? they were the ones worried that the citizenship question could lead to federal funding and lessen their authority over areas of the high hispanic population, they don't have to worry about that anymore. >> i'm sure the radical left will spin this as a win but they lose because the ultimate objective is accurate cou...
Implementing the strategy. i think we have to see exactly what the executive order says, but i do think it's important to highlight for your viewers that the constitution very specifically gives congress the power to count how many people are in our country. the enumeration clause says, congress, you do it. congress delegated that authority to the commerce department. there is a big problem with the president trying to reach in through some sort of executive action and dictate what happens, and then of course, as we've all said, there is a big problem here in terms of trying to find what is th...
General? >> absolutely. of course the federal government has the authority and constitutional rationale to put the citizenship question back onto the census. this is a reinstatement, let's not forget this question has been used on the census in some form since 1820 in the last time this was used on the long form was in 1970, 80, 90 and the only time it hasn't been used in some form on the census was during the obama administration in 2010 so the court's rationale, ridiculous overreach and political activism and the court even held this doesn't, the question itself doesn't violate the enumerati...