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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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Vanita Gupta
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Important: The #2020Census is one of the most urgent civil rights issues facing the country — and right now, every person in America has the opportunity to help ensure the count is fair and accurate for all communities. This thread explains how (plus some background). 1/
The Census Bureau has invited the public to comment on the #2020Census, including the questions that will appear on the form. That means the American people can speak directly to the Trump administration about its misguided actions to undermine the integrity of the 2020 count. 2/
After @uscensusbureau spent nearly a decade carefully preparing and testing questions to be included on the #2020Census, Commerce @SecretaryRoss caved to political pressure in March of this year and directed the bureau to add a question on citizenship to the census form. 3/
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Vanita Gupta
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Five years ago, five justices on the Supreme Court invalidated key provisions of the Voting Rights Act that for decades protected voters in states with pernicious histories of voting discrimination. Don't forget what happened in the immediate aftermath of this appalling decision:
Within 24 hours of the decision, the conservative justices prompted a deluge of voter suppression legislation. Texas and Alabama announced plans to plow ahead with restrictive and previously blocked voter-ID laws. Weeks later, N.C. passed its monster voter suppression law.
Five years later, the landscape is worse: The Republican voter suppression campaign now has the enthusiastic endorsement of the nation’s president – a president who is stacking the federal courts with the very people who cheered the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
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Vanita Gupta
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BREAKING: DOJ docs prove that Kobach and Bannon are behind Census citizenship Q. Kobach emails say he talked to Sec Ross “at the direction of Steve Bannon.” In email, Kobach proposes specific language for the citizenship Q, says it’s essential” and “needs to be added to census.”
Also in these docs is internal memo from@Chief Scientist at Census Bureau to Sec Ross from Jan 2018: adding citizenship Q “is v costly, harms the quality of census count, and would use substantially less accurate citizenship status data than are available from admin sources.”
DOJ’s production omits entire categories of requested documents, incl communications btwn WH and DOJ explaining why warnings by Census Bureau career experts were ignored or overruled. @RepCummings is having none of it and asking @TGowdySC to issue subpoena for these docs.
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Greg Greene
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A now-deceased GOP redistricting guru “wrote a study in 2015 concluding that adding a citizenship question to the census would allow Republicans to draft even more extreme gerrymandered maps to stymie Democrats.”

Ah. nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/…
“The documents cited … include an unpublished August 2015 analysis by [the redistricting guru], who was hired by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet financially backed by Paul Singer, a billionaire New York hedge fund manager and major Republican donor.”
The billionaire-undersigned guru said a Texas map drawn by counting only voting-aged citizens “‘would be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites,’ and would dilute the political power of the state’s Hispanics.”

Why? See below:
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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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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/…
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#SCOTUS keeps veil over much of mystery company's grand jury fight believed linked to Mueller, but there are some new nuggets.... politico.com/story/2019/01/…
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Chris Geidner
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CENSUS CASE UPDATE: 2nd Circuit denies a stay of the trial proceedings in the Census citizenship question challenge in a brief order, meaning DOJ likely will go to SCOTUS seeking a similar stay soon.
Here was the Tuesday thread on the case, including DOJ's renewed stay request at the 2nd Circuit:
Here was the challengers' opposition to the stay request at the 2nd Circuit, filed earlier today: documentcloud.org/documents/5219…
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