CBS Fears ‘Conservative Justices’ Allowing Citizenship Question onto Census

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 24, 2019
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For hundreds of years, some form of question about citizenship has been included in the United States census form. But now that Donald Trump was president it’s suddenly a problem of epic proportions, that’s according to the liberal media.

During Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor stoked fear of the question and the “conservative justices” on the Supreme Court that would allow it to be included.

The 2020 census will include a question about citizenship if the Trump administration wins a Supreme Court battle,” he reported. “Three lower courts have blocked the plan. The Supreme Court heard arguments on this case today. Conservative justices are expected to vote in favor of upholding the proposal.

Glor concluded the news brief by declaring as fact the liberal suggestion that “The citizenship question could leave millions uncounted in this year's census.” Do you see how presented that statement? No qualifier framing it as something critics of the proposal charge. He stated it as a fact and with no mention of the question’s history on the form.

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