Trump Allies Sue Over Census, Forget Their Own Undercounting Record
Mainstream media dutifully reports that Trump allies, specifically Stephen Miller's America First Legal, are suing the Census Bureau over their 'methods to protect participants’ privacy' and count those in group-living facilities. The AP presents this as a routine legal challenge, yet manages to tiptoe around the obvious: this isn't about accuracy; it's about systematically undercounting specific
populations. One might recall that the Trump administration previously attempted to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census – a move widely criticized by experts as designed to suppress participation from immigrant communities and communities of color, thus manipulating congressional representation and federal funding distributions for partisan gain. This new lawsuit, aiming to prevent
privacy protection methods and revise 2020 figures, is less a principled stand for 'accuracy' and more a thinly veiled continuation of that same strategy. It's almost as if some politicians only care about 'every person counted' when those persons vote their way.