NEW: The Biden administration and the House Oversight and Reform Committee have reached an agreement that could end the almost two-year legal battle over redacted Trump administration documents about the now-blocked census citizenship question
documentcloud.org/documents/2105…
2. House oversight committee members/staff can look at & take notes about docs to prepare a narrower request, but some info will still be redacted.
I wonder why Trump admin emails about the census would also mention unrelated "Department of Justice memoranda from the 1980s"?
3. Here are the redacted emails about the census that the Trump administration tried so hard to stop the House Oversight and Reform Committee from seeing, sparking this lawsuit:
npr.org/2019/06/14/732…
4. May 2, 2017 email sent to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross by Commerce Department official Earl Comstock
documentcloud.org/documents/4616…
5. May 2, 2017 email sent to Ross' chief of staff, Wendy Teramoto, by Ross
documentcloud.org/documents/4616…
6. Aug. 8, 2017 email sent to Comstock by Ross
documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
7. Aug. 10, 2017 email sent to Comstock by Ross
documentcloud.org/documents/4872…
8. The House oversight committee asked the Trump administration to release the "Census Memo Draft2 Aug 11 2017" that was attached to this Aug. 11, 2017 email sent to Ross by Comstock
documentcloud.org/documents/4616…
9. Sept. 1, 2017 email sent to Comstock by Ross
documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
10. Sept. 1, 2017 email sent to Ross by Comstock
documentcloud.org/documents/6153…
11. Sept. 7, 2017 email sent to Comstock by Commerce Department attorney James Uthmeier
documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
12. Dec. 20, 2017 email sent to Uthmeier by White House official John Zadrozny
documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
13. Feb. 26, 2018 email sent to Commerce Department attorney Michael Walsh by Uthmeier
documentcloud.org/documents/6153…
14. Btw, Trump admin's failed push for a census citizenship question followed a playbook by the Federation for American Immigration Reform for getting a count of unauthorized immigrants to radically reshape Congress, the Electoral College and public policy
npr.org/2021/02/15/967…
15. Worth noting this August 2017 email by James Uthmeier appears to foreshadow what became Trump admin's ultimate strategy — citing 1992 SCOTUS ruling to argue the president can decide whether to include unauthorized immigrants in the apportionment counts
documentcloud.org/documents/5022…
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