Opinion Red state AG's sociopathic nonsense is a threat to us all

By Bridgette Dunlap, Missouri Independent- Commentary
Published February 11, 2026 4:23 PM ET

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has filed a lawsuit seeking to require the Census Bureau to “redo” the $14 billion 2020 Census to exclude the persons she doesn’t consider persons. The U.S. Constitution requires that every 10 years “the whole number of persons in each state” be counted for the purpose of apportioning representatives.

Hanaway’s press release brags that her “first-in-the-nation suit” is “the most significant election lawsuit in a generation.” Indeed, her attempt to dilute the voting power of those in states with large minority populations (which tend to be blue, but also include Texas and Florida) is groundbreaking in its disregard of constitutional text and history. Since the first census in 1790, we have always counted non-citizens.

At both the founding of the nation and the adoption of the 14th Amendment, women like myself and Hanaway did not enjoy the rights of citizenship. But we were counted in the census anyway.

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Dear Miss Dunlap...................you were in the class and your professor explained that part of the Constitution that the Missouri AG must was have skipped out of that class and how she got her law degree needs to be ask discrimination is still discrimination..............even me a non-lawyer was schooled in my History class by great teachers told us the Constitution and especially the 14th Amendment because of that thing called the Civil War ............and the Census..............because it was a test question that I do remember..........