“The executive branch is required to enforce the census and count the people so that we know that we can participate in the franchise and have free and fair elections. It’s just common sense to count the citizens in the states.
“So what the Supreme Court has done, has said, is that the citizenship question — which by the way has been on every census since the early 1800s – it was simply removed by the Obama administration in 2010.
“This is a reinstatement, that the question doesn’t violate either the Enumerations Clause in the Constitution or legislation. They’re simply requiring President Trump to provide further rationale.” – Trump 2020 campaign advisor Jenna Rives, on Fox & Friends.
NPR reports:
The last time a citizenship question was among the census questions for all U.S. households was in 1950. That form asked where each person was born and in a follow-up question asked, “If foreign born — Is he naturalized?” In 1960, there was no such question about citizenship, only about place of birth.
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