Time: Wed Jun 25 10:29:11 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29428; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:18:29 -0700 (MST) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA07299; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:18:00 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:16:23 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: How to Rig the Election in the Year 2000? (fwd) In re: apportionment of congressional districts, 28 U.S.C. 2284 and 3-judge panels. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com <snip> > >Subject: Fwd: How to Rig the Election in the Year 2000? > >THE WASHINGTON TIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5am -- June 20, 1997 > >Clinton pushes on with census plan > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >By Donald Lambro >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >The Clinton administration intends to proceed with its statistical sampling >plan for the next census, despite strong GOP opposition in Congress and >threatened lawsuits. > >. . . . "Our plan for the census in 2000 is to include statistical sampling," >an administration official in the Commerce Department, which includes the >U.S. Census Bureau, said Thursday. > >. . . . The administration's reaffirmation of its plan, on the heels of last >week's fight over the issue between congressional Republicans and President >Clinton, will prompt a renewed attempt by GOP leaders to block a development >they fear will result in a major loss of House seats by their party. > >. . . . "It means that we in Congress are going to have to gird for battle >again. We will have legislation to prohibit it, either as a stand-alone bill >or attached to another piece of legislation," said Rep. Bob Barr, Georgia >Republican and a member of the Government Reform and Oversight subcommittee >that oversees the Census Bureau. > >. . . . "It should come as no surprise that the entrenched bureaucracy at the >Census still plans to forge ahead with its risky scheme of statistical >guessing, regardless of its inaccuracy," said Rep. Dennis Hastert, chairman >of the panel. > >. . . . "The Congress must step in so that an accurate constitutional census >is conducted in 2000," the Illinois Republican said. > >. . . . At the same time, the Southeastern Legal Foundation, an Atlanta-based >public-interest law firm, announced at a Capitol Hill news conference that it >intends to file suit in federal court to prevent the Census Bureau from using >statistical sampling without the expressed approval of Congress. > >. . . . "This is unconstitutional. Only Congress has the authority over the >census, and it has unambiguously expressed its disapproval of statistical >sampling," said Matthew Glavin, the foundation's president. > >. . . . Last week GOP leaders added to the disaster-assistance bill a measure >to block the sampling plan that would be used to count an estimated 10 >percent of the population. Mr. Clinton vetoed the legislation but later >signed a bill without the rider sent to him by GOP leaders. > >. . . . The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, states that an "actual >enumeration," or head count, must be conducted every 10 years "in such a >manner as they [members of Congress] shall by law direct." > >. . . . Mr. Glavin said Thursday that the language Congress included in the >vetoed flood-relief bill was a clear expression of its opposition to the >Census Bureau's proposed sampling methodology. "You can't get much clearer >than that," he said. > >. . . . The Census Bureau and the administration maintain that the method >would save money and help offset what they call an unavoidable undercount of >Americans who do not respond to mailed or door-to-door census taking, many of >whom live in the central cities, where there are large Democratic majorities. > >. . . . At his news conference on Thursday, Mr. Glavin ridiculed the method >and said it is an invitation to "statistical error and political abuse." > >. . . . "Instead of actually counting people, the Census Bureau would make >their best guess of where the count might be low, add a magical statistical >percentage and then apply those percentages to similar areas across the >nation," he said. > >. . . . Compromise language in the disaster-relief bill signed by the >president said the administration would submit its census-taking plan in 30 >days to Congress. > >. . . . An administration official, who did not want to be named, said >Thursday that the Census Bureau has been planning to use the sampling method >for nearly two years and this intention was unaltered by last week's veto >fight. > >. . . . "We have always planned to move ahead with this plan," the official >said. > >. . . . Mr. Glavin said Thursday that as soon as the administration sends its >plan to Congress, "that will be the trigger, that's when we will take them to >court to prevent it." > >. . . . GOP lawmakers and party officials fear that the administration will >use the sampling plan to boost the population count in key states in an >attempt to create new Democratic congressional districts in urban areas >through the reapportionment process. > >. . . . "There's a history of political abuses by this administration, from >the FBI files in the White House to their plan last year to register >immigrants. This is an attempt to politicize the census and we're not going >to let them get away with it," Mr. Glavin said. > >Related article...... >THE WASHINGTON TIMES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5am -- June 20, 1997 > >INS deputy chief resigns; seen as 'sacrificial lamb' > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >By Ruth Larson >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The No. 2 official at the Immigration and Naturalization Service has >announced her resignation in the wake of continuing management problems and >charges that the agency's citizenship program was politicized by the White >House. > >. . . . Deputy Commissioner Chris Sale informed Commissioner Doris Meissner >of her decision late last month. "I believe the time has come for me to >consider alternative career opportunities," she wrote. > >. . . . "It is time for a change, time for new opportunities for growth, and >time to find a better balance between work and family," she wrote. Mrs. Sale >is married and has two teen-age children. > >. . . . Mrs. Sale, a career civil servant, has been at the INS for nearly six >years. She served as acting commissioner for the first 11 months in 1993, and >has been deputy commissioner since December 1993. > >. . . . Mrs. Meissner said she accepted Mrs. Sale's decision to leave "with >extreme regret." She praised her deputy for her oversight of the agency's >day-to-day operations, as well as special initiatives such as the strategic >plan "INS 2000." > >. . . . "The Service would not be where it is today without the skill and >dedication Chris has brought to the critical challenges we have faced," she >wrote. > >. . . . INS spokesman Greg Gagne said Mrs. Sale had not set a definite date >for leaving. Nevertheless, the Justice Department will begin advertising the >position vacancy on June 20. "This is not an easy job to fill," he said. > >. . . . "With the emphasis -- in a very public way -- on improving everything >we do, it's enormously challenging," Mr. Gagne said. > >. . . . Her departure means that an unusually high number of top slots are >vacant at the beleaguered agency, with several more senior district managers >due to retire this summer. > >. . . . "It's purely a coincidence of timing," Mr. Gagne said. "It affords us >the opportunity to look outside the agency for the best and the brightest in >the law enforcement community." > >. . . . INS officials said Mrs. Sale had made the decision to leave on her >own. Others on Capitol Hill, however, see her as the scapegoat for a series >of flawed management decisions. > >. . . . Likewise, INS sources said Mrs. Sale was seen as "the designated >sacrificial lamb" to atone for a number of policy blunders, especially the >naturalization initiative known as "Citizenship USA." > >. . . . Mrs. Sale figured prominently in a number of internal White House >memos released last year, as aides to Vice President Al Gore appeared to >pressure the INS to accelerate the citizenship process. > >. . . . For example, in a March 1996 memo, Douglas Farbrother, a Gore aide, >suggested: "Move Chris Sales [sic] into another job ... and make me the INS >deputy commissioner. From there, I could do more, faster." The move was never >made. > >. . . . INS officials have repeatedly denied Republican charges that >Citizenship USA was an election-year ploy orchestrated by the White House, >and that thousands of convicted felons were granted citizenship. > >. . . . But subsequent audits of the program have found that 180,000 aliens >became citizens without undergoing complete criminal background checks, and >at least 296 have been found to have been improperly granted citizenship. > >. . . . An audit also found that 16,400 of the new citizens had been arrested >for at least one felony. The INS has said it intends to revoke the >citizenship of 4,650 persons who lied about their arrest record on their >applications. > >. . . . Top INS officials insist that new safeguards have been put in place >to correct problems in the citizenship program. However, a recent independent >audit found that only one of the 23 INS field offices surveyed had fully >implemented the new policies. > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.2 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. 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