Restoring the U.S. Census

... The idea was as simple as it was profound: political power should follow the actual number of people—not estimates, not probabilities, not manipulated figures—residing in each state. This “actual Enumeration,” written into Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, was meant to be one of the republic’s great safeguards of equal representation...

Two hundred thirty years later, the Census Bureau turned that safeguard upside down and thwarted the will of voters. In 2020, it implemented “differential privacy,” an opaque algorithm that deliberately injects false numbers into small-area data. Supposedly designed to protect privacy and identities, it instead scrambled population counts in ways that Harvard researchers found made it “impossible to follow the principle of ‘One Person, One Vote.’”...

The decision to implement differential privacy was made at the precise moment it became clear that President Trump intended to exclude illegal aliens from apportionment counts in the 2020 census. By scrambling block-level data and erasing the probability of independent verification, the permanent bureaucracy insulated itself from oversight and judicial review...

In 2022, the bureau admitted that the 2020 census had overcounted populations in eight states—including Minnesota and Rhode Island—and undercounted in six, including Texas and Florida. These shifts cost Florida two seats it should have gained, deprived Texas of one, and allowed Minnesota and Rhode Island to keep seats they should have lost...

This was compounded by the fact that illegal aliens were counted in the apportionment totals...

Can President Trump fix this problem? Yes—but only if he acts with legal precision and political resolve. The Constitution’s Census Clause is not a one-shot-per-decade rule—it is an ongoing mandate to ensure an accurate count...

The law permits correction. The Constitution invites it. And the republic—if it is to remain one—requires it.