Nebs said:
I’ve always hated the redrawing of districts. Seems unfair to me, just sayin. Also, nothing in that article says what he plans to actually do. Do you know? The census is rather ridiculous…maybe just maybe they’re trying to make it work better. What evidence is there that anything nefarious is happening?
It’s been under the commerce department since the census was started and there is no evidence to support that it needed to be moved or that it would be improved if moved.
Would you trust Karl Rove with the duty of drawing district lines and awarding federal aid and wellfare for the next 10 years? No. By that same reasoning it shouldn’t be under Rahm Emanuel either.
It was being run complete independent from politics and political maneuvering and if moving it won’t actually make the system work better one can assume there’s another reason behind it. I mean he didn’t bypass Congress on this for nothing.
On a seperate note, since this goes completely against existing US Code, some have suggested that this move may be deemed unconstitutional. It would really suck if Obama’s actions were already being declared unconstitutional not one month into his term…