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Would An Early Census Be Legal?

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August 08, 2025

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In Today’s Brief

  • Florida: Nurse fraud

  • Israel: Gaza control

  • Bannon: 2028 report

  • GPT-5: Big reveal

  • Disney: Carano settlement

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President Donald Trump wants an early recount. 

  • The news: Trump said he has told the Commerce Department to run a “new and highly accurate” census that excludes people in the U.S. illegally. He suggested it draw from 2024 election data.

  • Case law: The Constitution requires an “actual Enumeration” every 10 years, The 14th Amendment says House seats are apportioned by the “whole number of persons” in each state — language long read to include non-citizens. Federal law permits a mid-decade census but bars using it to apportion seats or draw congressional districts. The Supreme Court has never approved excluding undocumented people from apportionment.

  • Big picture: Trump claims states with large undocumented populations gain unfair clout and funding and that undocumented people allow Democrats to win House seats. The census gambit is part of his efforts to have congressional maps redrawn to increase Republican chances of holding the House in the midterms. But the push will face legal challenges and current laws make it clear congressional apportionment cannot be addressed until after the 2030 census.

Quick Tips

U.S. News

  • A Florida woman allegedly posed as a nurse and treated over 4K people without a license. She is accused of stealing a certified nurse’s license and faces over a dozen criminal charges (More)

  • New York City officials identified remains of three Sept. 11 victims, almost 25 years after the terrorist attack. The city coroner used family outreach and advanced DNA testing to make the IDs; the remains of over 1K victims remain unidentified (More)

  • Lithium treatment could reverse Alzheimer’s disease, according to a Harvard study. Researchers found people with brain damage and memory issues have low levels of the element; the effects were cured in mice with therapeutics (More)

World News

  • Israel’s security cabinet approved plans for military control of Gaza City. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he intends to take hold of the entire enclave to remove Hamas before ceding to Arab forces and a Palestinian government (More)

  • Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a “peace signing” at the White House today with President Trump. The former Soviet republics have been in extended talks to end decades of hostilities (More)

  • The U.S. is now offering a $50M reward for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s arrest. The dictator, who remains in power despite losing a 2024 election, was indicted on federal drug charges in 2020 (More)

Political News

  • Ex-White House advisor Steve Bannon is reportedly considering a presidential run. The Daily Mail reports said the 71-year-old right-wing podcaster does not believe Vice President J.D. Vance is “tough” enough to be the Republican nominee (More)

  • Texas Sen. John Cornyn said the FBI will help locate Texas Democrats who fled the state in protest of Republican efforts to redraw the state’s congressional map, drawing Democratic condemnation. A federal court said Alabama must stick with a map that creates two Black-majority districts (More | More)

  • President Trump nominated Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The current chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors will finish the term of outgoing governor Adriana Kugler, who resigned last week (More)

Business & Markets

  • Major indexes closed mixed yesterday. The Dow Jones dropped over 200 points, but saw a futures rebound overnight (Dow -0.51%, S&P 500 -0.08%, Nasdaq +0.35%).

  • ChatGPT maker OpenAI unveiled GPT-5 yesterday. CEO Sam Altman said the AI bot is “smarter, faster and more useful” and possesses PHD-level expertise (More)

  • President Trump called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to immediately resign. The demand came after Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton questioned the executive’s ties to the Chinese government; the chipmaker’s stock price fell yesterday (More)

Entertainment & Sports

  • Gina Carano and Disney settled a wrongful termination lawsuit over the actor’s firing from The Mandalorian. She claimed discrimination after being let go in 2021 for controversial social media posts; Tesla CEO Elon Musk paid her legal fees (More)

  • Texas QB Arch Manning may not enter next year’s NFL draft. Archie Manning told Texas Monthly he expects his grandson — the nephew of Eli and Peyton Manning — will stay in college in 2026 (More)

  • A cryptocurrency group claimed responsibility for recent incidents where sex toys were thrown on the court during WNBA games. A purported member of the group gave an interview to ESPN and said it is a marketing ploy for a new coin (More)