Catherine Rampell: The GOP is sabotaging this sacred mandate

Washington • The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves.Not because of cavalier threats about nuclear apocalypse and attempted erosion of First Amendment rights (OK, maybe those things, too). Because our federal government is failing to execute one of its most basic constitutional duties: the decennial census.The decennial census is the country’s largest civilian mobilization. It determines where billions of federal dollars flow each year, and how many congressional and ele