Via
WRSA
With an 8-0 ruling that illegals count toward apportionment, does it even matter?
“A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that illegal immigrants and
other noncitizens can be counted when states draw their legislative
districts, shooting down a challenge by Texas residents who said their
own voting power was being diluted,”
The Washington Times reported.
Counted? Do we use 11 million or 30?
And unanimous? So much for “originalists” on the court. So naturally,
the most “progressive” of the eight left standing – the one who views
the
Second Amendment as “obsolete,” was the one entrusted to explain founding intent.
“As the Framers of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment
comprehended, representatives serve all residents, not just those
eligible or registered to vote,” Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the
court. “Nonvoters have an important stake in many policy debates —
children, their parents, even their grandparents, for example, have a
stake in a strong public-education system — and in receiving constituent
services, such as help navigating public-benefits bureaucracies.”
Welcome to the great giveaway – not just in terms of wealth transfers
and utilization of infrastructure and resources, but in terms of power
through
apportionment.
Here’s the
political danger:
