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Appeal forthcoming. Sad day in America when law enforcement officials can willfully violate a court order with impunity. Yet another example of fascism as practiced by this corrupt administration.

Exactly. And “free persons” makes no distinction on citizenship. There are numerous outdated terms in the Constitution but outdated or not, the SCOTUS will decide.

Again, the Supreme Court will have final say when the Constitutionality of this proposed new law is challenged. And I’m not certain that even a majority GOP-led Congress and will be unanimous as excluding non-citizens from the census is a direct violation of Article 1, Section 2.

Trump tried to have non-citizens discounted in 2020 by adding a citizenship question to the census but the SCOTUS did not agree and he will face the same challenge this time around. Bottom line is that it would take a Constitutional amendment to Article 1, Section 2 to have non-residents discounted in a census.

Article 1, Section 2 clearly mandates every 10 years. MANDATED. Whether or not you agree that all the people shouldn’t be counted is irrelevant because, again, the Constitution decrees that all residents be counted. Yes, and this bill relates to funding and funding only based on updated population counts. Ironically, the final paragraph above makes clear that a mid-decade census PROHIBITS redrawing Congressional districts. Regardless, none of the language contained in HR 11337 changes the mandate in Article 1, Section 2 that ALL people shall be counted, citizen or not.

It’s amazing how quickly a “hands off” policy was implemented by ICE after the Nebraska raid on a meat processing facility there. They won’t touch any illegal immigrants working at such factories in red states. Trump clearly has his marching orders.

Trump needs to read the Constitution which clearly enumerates EVERY 10 YEARS and should count THE WHOLE NUMBER OF PERSONS IN EACH STATE, which includes EVERYBODY, not just citizens.

Your conservative friend is a moron.

I will add that after Maxwell agrees to exonerate the cheeto in chief and gets her pardon for participating in the sex trafficking and raping of children, that because some of these crimes were committed in New York, that she can somehow be prosecuted because that pardon would only apply to her federal conviction. I need to research if the double jeopardy standard applies.

https://apple.news/ADLE80IPbR-az1eZ_21SdIA Needless to say, this all reeks. But I’m not surprised that a convicted felon and sexual abuser like Trump would have sympathy for a fellow convicted sexual abuser and felon like Maxwell. Everything this administration will say about Trump’s association with Epstein will be a lie, just like everything they’ve said so far. Sickening.

What would that look like?

Remember the deluge of daily DOGE twitter posts boasting about all their discoveries of fraud and abuse? The more they blew their own horn, the more convinced I was that they are a big nothing burger. Not only haven’t they saved much but, as in the case of the NSW, their cuts actually cost us money. I predict other cuts will end up costing us more as well.

There are articles out there about the bullcrap DOGE claims. Here’s the most recent I found. A whopping 3%. Per my previous article about the rehires at the NWS, is that there’s an additional training cost involved in terms of real dollars, not to mention the brain-drain from all the experience that is no longer there. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-claims-slashing-costs-cbs-news-analysis/ And it was all predicted previously. Arrogant pisspots who think they know more than anyone else in the room.

https://abc7.com/post/weather-service-is-now-hiring-back-hundreds-positions-got-cut-doge-chaos/17441964/ Way to go, DOGE. Perhaps the least needed government agency ever created.

Also shades of Putin. And with Netanyahu making moves to fire the attorney general who is prosecuting him, we can add him to the mix as well.

The jobs report is a good tool nonetheless as it is a good gauge for indicating either headwinds or tailwinds relative to the economy and how that may impact lenders, employers, etc. Perhaps if the CES were mandatory on a federal level, the lags we see in the reporting data would be lessened, but since it relies on over 600,000 businesses and agencies nationwide to voluntarily contribute to the survey, it is inevitable that those businesses and agencies that participate may not have all the pertinent data by the first of every month. It’s a good thing that when all the data does arrive, the numbers can be adjusted to get a more detailed picture for previous months. I think it’s worth noting that individual states also conduct these surveys and they dovetail the stats compiled on the federal level as well. I can’t agree that data is simply data as different data depends on a myriad of different factors that go into its compilation and analysis. We can all agree that we don’t need a president accusing the USBLS of just making up the numbers and cooking the books. Which is exactly what would happen with a blind loyalist in charge. But it’s impossible to do, anyway, so the real worry would be those far right media outlets who don’t question anything he does, and gleefully report his made up crap, anyway.

Why?

Jobs reports are ALWAYS adusted up or down after a month or so. ALWAYS.

We can only hope people don’t fall for his ever growing bull$hit. He thinks we are all stupid, especially his core maga constituency.

Again, your argument is with the SCOTUS and Congress. And again, Whether CO2 is a pollutant or not is irrelevant to my concern that the current EPA, under this administration, is seeking to reverse established environmental protections and that is not limited to CO2 emissions.

You asked what statute applied and I cited where the ruling on CO2 came from so your argument is with the SCOTUS and Congress because I’m not the one proclaiming CO2 as a pollutant, just that two things happened to have it classified as such: the 2007 SCOTUS ruling which said that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are considered pollutants under the Clean Air Act and the further clarification on CO2 contained in the IRA. Since CO was already classified as a pollutant in the CAA, there was no need for further clarification in the IRA. Nobody suddenly dismissed CO as an actual pollutant. Ironically, it was the EPA’s argument in that 2007 SCOTUS case that CO2 and other greenhouse gases were NOT pollutants under the CAA. Again, my main concern isn’t who classified what as a pollutant or when, it’s the fact that this administration seeks to undo important environmental protections, regardless.

That doesn’t what? Not sure what you’re seeking to argue about here. The SCOTUS gave the EPA broad authority in that ruling and regardless, both the Clean Air Act and the Inflation Reduction Act that further defined CO2 as a pollutant were passed by Congress. But that is beside my point which is that this administration is scuttling the regulations designed to hold polluters responsible and giving them free rein to pollute. It’s a classic example of the fox being in charge of the hen house. Is car exhaust a pollutant? How about industrial runoff of chemicals into water systems? I don’t need an act of Congress to decide that for me.

From Wiki because I don't feel like summarizing the Supreme Court ruling and/or the further clarification contained in the Inflation Reduction Act.

Absolutely, John. Face slaps depend on proper decorum.

I’d line them up against a wall and give them each a face slap with freshly laundered white gloves.