Bye, Mr. Santos.

[Jolly]

https://apnews.com/article/census-bureau-robert-santos-redistricting-bac775b7251f4bfabb9026f0930a553d

Well...Consider...

https://skeshel.substack.com/p/the-us-census-bureau-stole-at-least

So, is counting illegal aliens stealing congressional seats?

[jon-nyc]

No. In the 18th century there was no concept of illegal aliens and the census was to count the number of ‘whole persons’ (sorry Jeffrey Dahlmer).

It’s controversial today but so are many decisions they made in the 1780s.

[Jolly]

It's no longer 1800. The basic definition of a U.S. citizen has changed.

[jon-nyc]

Neither has that of ‘whole persons’

[Axtremus]

@jon-nyc said in Bye, Mr. Santos.:

Neither has that of ‘whole persons’

Wait ... how do you count amputated persons and conjoint twins?

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in Bye, Mr. Santos.:

It's no longer 1800. The basic definition of a U.S. citizen has changed.

So Scalia's "originalism" is not applicable in this case, eh?

[Jolly]

@Axtremus No, it's still applicable. Go read what happened in 1875.