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Ari Berman
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Trump could rig American politics for next decade if SCOTUS upholds citizenship question on 2020 census. Would be as devastating to democracy as anything in Mueller report. Pay attention to oral arguments Tuesday motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Wilbur Ross repeatedly lied about why he added citizenship question to census:

1. Said needed to enforce Voting Rights Act (it’s not)

2. Said DOJ requested q when he did

3. Said didn’t discuss w/ Trump officials when Bannon put him in touch with Kobach motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Citizenship question will:

Cause 6.5 million people not to respond to census

Increase cost of census by tens of millions

Redistribute power to whiter & more Republican areas

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
As I wrote in @MotherJones feature, of all the ways democracy is threatened under Trump, an unfair and inaccurate census could have the most dramatic long-term impact motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
@MotherJones In video for @nowthisnews I explain why Trump's plan to rig 2020 census such a huge threat to democracy
Long line at SCOTUS today to hear critical census citizenship question case
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Ari Berman
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Kris Kobach told House Oversight Committee he discussed adding census citizenship question with Trump, Bannon & Preibus after inauguration

Kobach is architect of laws restricting voting & immigration, more evidence of discrimination behind citizenship q
oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat…
According to @OversightDems "the White House interfered directly and aggressively with the Committee’s interview" of Kris Kobach about the real reason a citizenship question was added to census & Kobach's discussions about it with White House
@OversightDems Remember that Kobach wrote to Wilbur Ross "at the direction of Steve Bannon" in July 2017 & said it was "essential" citizenship question be added to census

This was smoking gun evidence even before we learned GOP gerrymandering guru also pushed for q

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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Ari Berman
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Census case looking more & more like Muslim ban:

1. Clearly discriminatory policy

2. Trump officials lie about true purpose

3. Evidence undercuts it

4. SCOTUS conservative majority still poised to uphold

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
By any objective measure SCOTUS should strike down census citizenship question, as 3 courts already done. But good chance that John Roberts, who wrote opinion gutting Voting Rights Act, will allow Trump to rig American politics for next decade motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Trump admin officials laughably claim citizenship question will help enforce Voting Rights Act when all the evidence shows the opposite, just like they said travel ban wasn't a Muslim ban when Trump said exactly that motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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Ari Berman
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🚨🚨New docs show that architect of GOP gerrymandering was behind Trump's push to add citizenship question to 2020 census, said it "would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” & “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic
Whites” documentcloud.org/documents/6077… via @hansilowang
@hansilowang I can't overstate how big a deal this is: we now have smoking gun evidence showing Trump rigging 2020 census to protect conservative white political power & harm minority/immigrant communities for next decade motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
@hansilowang Today is good day to read my months-long @MotherJones deep dive on all the ways Trump trying to rig 2020 census. This is greatest threat to democracy that not nearly enough people talking about motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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Vanita Gupta
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MUST READ: NEW evidence abt deliberate manipulation of the census to seal Republican power for next decade. If SCOTUS keeps citizenship Q on, its legitimacy as anything but a partisan machine supporting weaponization of our democracy will be irredeemable. nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/…
The Trump administration has lied to Congress and to the Supreme Court about why it put the citizenship question on the census. But the majority of the Supreme Court seems willing to swallow the lie to achieve the Trump admin’s desired outcome to seal Republican power.
All eyes on Justice Roberts now. Question is does he care about the legitimacy of the Court enough to stop this. And that’s a big question.
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Cristian Farias
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A major break in the Census litigation: Plaintiffs in the case accuse the Trump administration of concealing evidence of the real reason for a citizenship question.

To wit: A push to create a structural electoral advantage for “Republicans and non-Hispanic Whites.”

Wow.
All along, the Trump administration has insisted that it needs citizenship data to better enforce the Voting Rights Act.

The trial court in New York found those reasons “pretextual,” but this new evidence goes further: The data would be used for rank partisan advantage.
That’s a big revelation in this case, and as close to a smoking gun if this were a civil rights dispute.

But it isn’t. This is instead a dry, administrative law case. Because of limitations in law and doctrine, the evidence was largely limited to the “administrative record.”
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Rep. Ralph Norman
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I know my colleague @justinamash to be a conscientious and principled man, but I am baffled by his conclusions about the #Mueller report. It is like we have read two different documents.. (1/5)
(2/5) What I have read, is a #report that finds no proof of obstruction and no underlying crime to obstruct..
(3/5) The so-called “evidence” is a collage of unsupported allegations - mostly by disgruntled former employees with an axe to grind
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Heritage Foundation
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Only in U.S. is it controversial to have a citizenship question on the #census—one we’ve had consistently since 1820 (and census still asks it today on the annual American Community Survey): dailysign.al/2Dmw2kU
Even the UN—the left’s favorite model institution—recommends a citizenship question in its manual on how to conduct a census.

Countries like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico all ask. Are they problematic? bit.ly/2K2kpVm
On 4/23 #SCOTUS is hearing arguments on the citizenship question for #2020Census—common sense and the Constitution say the question should be allowed. dailysign.al/2Dmw2kU
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Celeste P.
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Ok, as it's almost noon on the west coast:

I know everyone's wondering what might happen next with the Michael Cohen fallout/Jeff Sessions/etc. but:

1. We are SEVEN business days out from #SCOTUS confirmation hearings beginning. You know what to do.

(Scroll up for more information)

2. It's important we continue to pay attention to what the Senate is doing. By now, you've probably heard of the DeVos proposal on using federal funds to buy guns.

Support the Chris Murphy amendment block.

washingtonpost.com/news/grade-poi…
3. McConnell is about to try and push through 17 more nominees, including 12 judicial nominees.

rollcall.com/news/politics/…
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Rick Hasen
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On this Independence Day, when we celebrate the U.S. as a democracy and as we await a Scalia-like successor to Justice Kennedy to be nominated for #SCOTUS, some thoughts on how the Court could set the cause of voting rights back significantly in the years to come: /1
The first way that the Court can negatively affect voting rights is by holding that democracy-enhancing laws like the Voting Rights Act or campaign contribution limits are unconstitutional. The second way is by upholding state laws making it harder to register and vote. /2
In the first category, at the top of my list is that #SCOTUS with a fifth hard conservative on race could either hold that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is an unconstitutional racial classification or interpret it so weekly it dies death by 1,000 cuts /3
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