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Critical information in this report that needs to be shared as widely as possible: The Trump Regime's attempt to include a "Citizenship Question" in this year's census was rejected by the Courts. But its intended damage was already done and still remains.
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The chilling effect on #Latinx communities of Trump's and the #GOPs attempts to corrupt the Census threatens a Census undercount that could defraud diverse states of Congressional representation and a fair share of Federal tax dollars.
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The #Latinx and other groups working to defuse these fears and encourage participation could use support from the rest of us. Here's a Google list of links to outreach efforts across the country.
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Rob Benjamin
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A potential defense against this: a #CoronavirusCompact. A joint purchasing agreement that lets multiple States buy equipment and supplies under a single contract with suppliers. Uniform prices and coordinated logistics under an interstate authority. It's been done before.
Texas did this decades ago, allowing other States to join its contracts with suppliers for educational and other products and services.
A #CoronavirusCompact among NY, NJ, OH, VA, CA, MI, LA, and other States, both Red and Blue, wouldn't match Federal buying power, but would create a more predictable, overall better customer-supplier relationship than anything the Trump Regime could create.
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Local 3D printing is being used to produce ventilator parts in Italy. The company is being threatened by the patent holder, but is prepared to ask for forgiveness instead asking permission.
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Local 3D printing of critical parts is already being used for disaster relief. Mass production and distribution at or near point-of-use should be possible as well.
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We already have a glut of plastic waste that can be recycled, reprocessed, and repurposed for local supply of low-cost raw materials for these parts and even for whole systems.
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Jeff Carlson
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1) President Trump's "Executive Order on Collecting Information about Citizenship Status in Connection with the Decennial Census"

Some excerpts to follow.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
2) "The Court’s ruling...has now made it impossible, as a practical matter, to include a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire."

"Nevertheless, we shall ensure that accurate citizenship data is compiled in connection with the census by other means."
3) "I have determined that it is imperative that all executive departments and agencies (agencies) provide the Department the maximum assistance permissible, consistent with law, in determining the number of citizens and non-citizens in the country..."
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Executive Order on Collecting Information about Citizenship Status in Connection with the Decennial Census
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1.  Purpose.  In Department of Commerce v. New York, No. 18-966 (June 27, 2019), the Supreme Court held that the Department of Commerce (Department) may, as a general matter, lawfully include a question inquiring about citizenship status on the decennial census and, more
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Hansi Lo Wang
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BREAKING: President Trump has backed down on push for #CitizenshipQuestion on #2020Census & says he's issuing an executive order to do something that Commerce @SecretaryRoss has already directed @uscensusbureau to do -- compile existing gov't records on citizenship from agencies.
@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau 2. Back in June 2018, I reported on the @uscensusbureau trying to get access to naturalization data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, visa and passport data from the State Department, and records from the Social Security Administration👇

@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau 3. NEW: @TheJusticeDept spokesperson Kerri Kupec says the DOJ "will promptly inform the courts that the Government will not include a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census.”
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Zoe Tillman
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It appears ~something~ may happen today re: the census citizenship question: nbcnews.com/politics/donal… Whatever it is, there are federal judges in MD, NY, and CA who will have questions, and probably some appellate judges, and maybe some SCOTUS justices
One big Q going forward: What will judges do with the fact that the Trump admin repeatedly said the census forms had to be finalized by 6/30? Those representations went all the way up to SCOTUS, and were what prompted the case to move along quickly
The ACLU has already asked the judge in SDNY to enter an order blocking the administration from trying to add the citizenship question now based on that very issue (the 6/30 deadline representations):
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@TheJusticeDept @CommerceGov @uscensusbureau

This is not rocket science, friends.

Asking the #citizenship #question is #necessary for the #federal #government to #fulfill its #role in #advising #Congress regarding #enforcement of the #constitutional #right to #vote.
So it is #perplexing to read #newsreports that @TheJusticeDept is searching for a #path to #inclusion of the #citizenship #question.

Why is this a #puzzle for you?
The @uscensusbureau must do the best it can to accurate #ascertain #both the #number of #persons and the #number of #citizens.
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A White House official to The Wall Street Journal on Trump’s tweet:

“Nobody has any f—ing idea [what he’s talking about].”

wsj.com/articles/trump…
BREAKING: In a course reversal, Justice Dept. attorney says government will look for a way to add citizenship question to 2020 Census washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
In a call with a federal judge hours ago a DOJ attorney said:

“The tweet this morning was the first I had heard of the President’s position … I have confirmed that the Census Bureau is continuing with the process of printing the questionnaire without a citizenship question”
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