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.@AOC on smoking gun showing GOP gerrymandering guru behind census citizenship q

"I want to know why this question was magically added after a political operative detailed an intent to intimidate racial & immigrant communities for a partisan purpose"

@AOC .@AOC: "I want to know why people like Kris Kobach, with a résumé of voter suppression techniques, have their fingerprints all over the most sensitive census operations that we have as a government. This determines who has power in the United States"
@AOC Everyone should watch this @AOC video from today's census contempt hearing. As she notes the addition of any new census question usually requires 5 years of testing. Trump admin violated every established procedure to add citizenship question
@AOC .@AOC notes that during World War II census data used to round up Japanese Americans at internment camps. I wrote about that in my @motherjones feature about all the ways Trump rigging the census & the disturbing historical parallels between then and now motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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Ari Berman
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New: In call with Maryland judge Department of Justice reversed position there will be no citizenship question on 2020 census and said “they have been instructed to see whether there is a path forward” to reviving question & will appeal to SCOTUS if so drive.google.com/file/d/1M3Y6vj…
SCOTUS said Trump admin gave BS reason for adding census citizenship question

Gov’t said yesterday they were printing census forms without question based on July 1 deadline

And now they’re reversing position. This is unbelievable
Push for census citizenship question has been disaster from beginning:

Wilbur Ross lied it was needed to enforce Voting Rights Act

Bannon & Kobach behind it

GOP gerrymandering mastermind said intended to help GOP & whites

Gov’t dropped q then reversed after Trump tweet
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Ari Berman
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Huge breaking news: Trump admin drops push to add citizenship question to 2020 census. This is enormous victory for democracy motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
US beats England & Trump admin drops push for census citizenship question. Today was a good day
Trump admin confirms there will be no citizenship question on 2020 census. The forms are being printed now. This is BFD
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Ari Berman
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After SCOTUS upheld partisan gerrymandering the fight over who will control next cycle of redistricting is biggest sleeper story of 2020

Read my new @motherjones feature about @ericholder’s plan to rebuild Dem power in states & pass fairer maps in 2021 motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
@MotherJones @EricHolder In state after state, GOP gets minority of votes but majority of seats because of gerrymandering

WI: 45% votes, 64% of seats

MI: 47% votes, 53% seats

NC: 48% votes, 54% seats

This is the kind of extreme election rigging John Roberts said federal courts can’t review
@MotherJones @EricHolder Funded by $30 million in dark money after Citizens United decision, GOP took over key swing states in 2010 & passed extreme gerrymandered maps to lock in power for next decade

Nearly a decade later, GOP still controls every still legislative chamber in MI, NC, OH, PA & WI
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K. Louise Neufeld
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Friendly reminder: this was published less than 2 weeks ago 🦄🤔
Discovered files show Republican gerrymandering expert behind census citizenship question - Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com/nation-world/c…
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.@AOC"This is not abt whether or not I want to know who is a citizen in the US or not...I want to know why this question was magically added aftr we have seen that a political operative knew & detailed an intent to intimidate racial & immigrant communities"
.@AOC: "I want to know why Wilbur Ross, why Secretary Ross, continued to meet with people of disturbing political affiliations after his own administration warned him to stop."
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Akarnious
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#QUESTION = Are ALL Politicians absolutely LYING to the Australian Public about the Issue of -; #MIGRATION ??

See the Below Thread & Judge for Yourself

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@realDonaldTrump Having Julian Assange arrested under the Trump administration and extradited to the US, removes the conspiracy that the #DeepState and the #MSM had created. Optics are very important!! 👍😉
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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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