Comments on: After 3-Year Legal Battle, Massachusetts Gun Club Finally Returns to Fort Devens Rifle Range

By: LKB

LKB — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:55:10 +0000

In reply to Bucephalus. That’s my question as well. The base’s civilian attorney and the base commander were the bad guys here, and hopefully DoD brass has delivered smackdowns to them both,

By: Bucephalus

Bucephalus — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:05:33 +0000

Were there any consequences for the base commander or other “officials” in charge? It seems to me that the pettiness displayed in this fiasco should be addressed.

By: .40 cal Booger

.40 cal Booger — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:38:20 +0000

Illegal Aliens Rig The Census For Blue States, And Trump Is Right To Correct It.

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The American citizen pays the price in diluted representation when illegal aliens are counted in the census.
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President Donald Trump announced Thursday he instructed the Commerce Department to begin working on a census that does not include illegal aliens. It’s a long-overdue correction to a system that Democrats have exploited for years to tip the balance of power in Washington.

“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump said.

Trump previously signed a memo in 2020 that barred illegal aliens from being counted in the census. The memo was challenged and made its way to the Supreme Court, which ultimately did not rule on the merits as to whether all residents — regardless of their legal status — must be counted and if the president has the authority to exclude nonresidents.

The high court however did rule in the 1976 decision Mathews v. Diaz, a case regarding the Social Security Act, that while illegal immigrants are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and 14th Amendments, they are not entitled to the benefits of citizenship.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the unanimous court:

‘Neither the overnight visitor, the unfriendly agent of a hostile foreign power, the resident diplomat, nor the illegal entrant, can advance even a colorable constitutional claim to a share in the bounty that a conscientious sovereign makes available to its own citizens and some of its guests.’

If voting, which is a benefit exclusively for citizens, is off-limits to illegal immigrants, it would be hard to imagine that illegal immigrants should be empowered to dilute the weight of a vote by artificially expanding the population and increasing the representational advantage of one area while taking it away from another area that is populated by legal residents. And yet, thanks to Democrats, that’s exactly what they’re doing.

President Joe Biden, of course, ordered the census to include illegal aliens and other noncitizens and, coincidentally, opened the floodgates at the border, letting in millions of illegal aliens — all of who which could be counted in the census.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/07/illegal-aliens-rig-the-census-for-blue-states-and-trump-is-right-to-correct-it/

By: .40 cal Booger

.40 cal Booger — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:47:36 +0000

Trump Drops MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS On Dems With Census Demand… They’re DONE After This [note: Trump is ordering the census not to include illegal aliens and wants a new census. The democrats are counting on their sanctuary area illegal aliens to be counted to give them seats, which is why they invaded the country with illegal aliens and set up sanctuary areas. The census affects voting by determining how many representatives each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives, which is based on population counts. This process, known as apportionment, also influences the drawing of electoral district boundaries, ensuring fair representation for voters. The democrats were loading up ‘sanctuary’ areas for this purpose, to count illegal aliens in the census. And of course the democrats don’t like it, and there could be a constitutional question as well but the constitution is not really clear on if its just citizens or not although the democrats claim its everyone which would include illegal aliens but the reality is the constitution doesn’t say and SCOTUS has already ruled may times on other issues that the 14th Amendment applies to citizens. Yes, congress can order a mid decade census.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG0MOUdnByk