President Trump’s plot to bias the 2020 Census in the GOP’s favor was undone by his administration’s own incompetence. EricLevitz writes
Every protest counts. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Incompetence is the Trump administration’s finest feature.
There was nothing Democrats could do to stop a competent Republican administration from executing this scheme. The Executive branch has vast discretion to conduct the Census as it sees fit — or at least, so the Supreme Court’s five conservative justices believe. All Donald Trump and his allies had to do to get the question on the Census was avoid telling provable lies about their intentions.
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