Many of the mainstream media articles I found ignored the elephant-shaped 14th Amendment in the room or treated it an afterthought. Sure, a census proposal like this would still be newsworthy if it merely upended centuries of established census procedures, but the procedures have persisted this way in large part due to what the law requires of the census.
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Many of the mainstream media articles I found ignored the elephant-shaped 14th Amendment in the room or treated it an afterthought. Sure, a census proposal like this would still be newsworthy if it merely upended centuries of established census procedures, but the procedures have persisted this way in large part due to what the law requires of the census.