census generates an accurate count of how many citizens, noncitizens, and illegal aliens are in the united states of america. not too much to ask. this will greatly inform a wide array of public policy decisions. this information is also relevant to administering our elections. some states may want to draw state and local legislative districts based upon the voter eligible population. 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. with today s order, we will collect all of the information we need to conduct an accurate census and to make responsible decisions about public policy, voting rights, and representation in congress.
relating to citizenship ever since the 1820s. but while the supreme court correctly recognized that it would be entirely appropriate to include citizenship questions on the census, it nevertheless held that the commerce department did not adequately explain its decisions for doing so on the 2020 census. because as the supreme court recognized the defect in the commerce department s decision was curable with a better record, the president asked me to work with secretary ross to determine whether there remained a viable path for including a citizenship question on the census. i did so. in my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the supreme court. and therefore there is no question that a new decision to
realized that after the supreme court ruling we couldn t offer for the commerce department to offer another explanation after the story wilbur ross offered was not persuasive, not believable. anything else now commerce does is we still haven t decided why yet. so that was foreclosed and it only which is that the government repeatedly told courts including the supreme court that all this had to get wrapped up by the end of june because that s when the printing started. so to come back and say with that the in hand, maybe we have a little more wiggle room, perhaps was a tough sell. i think it may surprise many people to know that the census counts everybody, the entire population. not just citizens, not just people who can vote. it counts children, for example, and perhaps the president didn t realize that himself. it certainly would be a legitimate thing to find out how
conquer strategy. pitting one group of americans against another. making white americans think that these hispanic voters are coming in and somehow diminishing their votesors egalitarianism in our country. it s this divide and conquer strategy that has pushed our politics into this horrible state we re in. the truth is that the solution to all of this is to reform our immigration laws. then it doesn t really matter whether you put a citizenship question on the censor not. but clearly a lot of people, the president included, prefer the politics of immigration over the solutions for immigration because if plays well come campaign season. well, and i think we d, we ve got to figure out how to take the politics out of map drawing. i don t know how it is state by state. the supreme court allowed us to put the politics into map drawing. the democrats are in a odd
delayed by meritless litigation. as shocking as it may be, far left democrats in our country are determined to conceal the number of illegal aliens in our midst. they probably know the number is far greater, much higher, than anyone would ve ever believed before. maybe that s why they fight so hard. this is part of a broader left-wing effort to erode the rights of the american citizen and is very unfair to our country. the supreme court ultimately affirmed our right to ask the citizenship question and very strongly it was affirmed. but the supreme court also ruled that we must provide further explanation that would have produced even more litigation and considerable time delays. the case is already in three federal district courts that have been to be totally honest, extremely unfriendly to us.