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11 Dec, 4 tweets, 4 min read
❗️CENSUS NEWS: A federal court has ordered the Trump administration to produce documents shedding light on the rushed close to the 2020 Census, granting our motion to compel production in our ongoing challenge. @BrennanCenter (short🧵👇)
The "we": the relentless coalition of
@BrennanCenter @LawyersComm @lathamwatkins @NatUrbanLeague @LWV @BAJItweet @NAACP @CityAttorneyLA @sliccardo @Chicago @CountyofLA
@GRIC_Official and the Navajo Nation
Setting aside the technical discussion of the documents we should receive, the court's order very clearly explains the stakes of our case:
Learn more about our case and its complex and exciting history here:

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28 Oct
BREAKING: Trump is trying to rush the #2020Census results out the door on Dec. 31, but we’re not going to let him.

This morning, we launched the next phase in our push to save the census. Read the full complaint here: brennancenter.org/sites/default/….

Details in the🧵👇 @BrennanCenter Image
The "we": the fearless and relentless coalition of
@BrennanCenter @LawyersComm @lathamwatkins @NatUrbanLeague @LWV @BAJItweet @NAACP @CityAttorneyLA @sliccardo @chicago @CountyofLA @GRIC_Official and the Navajo Nation
Back in April, when the covid pandemic erupted across the country, the Census Bureau’s experts put forward a plan to ensure that everyone got counted AND stayed safe and healthy.
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22 Oct
Today's San Jose ruling that Trump can't exclude undocumented people from the #2020Census is smart. And not just because the panel got the issues right. It makes it MUCH harder for the Supreme Court to do the wrong thing and for Trump to worm out. Let's unpack it 🧵@BrennanCenter
Context: A panel of judges in New York last month ruled that Trump's plan to exclude undocumented people from the #2020Census numbers used for apportionment was illegal under federal statutory law. That case is now on appeal to SCOTUS, scheduled for argument on Nov. 30.
Plus, a baseline to set real quick: It’s going to be exceedingly difficult for SCOTUS--or any court--to rule that what Trump wants to do is legal. And that's regardless of whether SCOTUS has 8 Justices or 9, or who the swing Justice is. Why?
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12 Jun 19
So, if your main argument for the citizenship question is that we asked about citizenship before the 1960 Census, you’re relying on a completely flawed census paradigm.
(4) And if you’re relying on the appearance of citizenship questions on the sample surveys from 1970 onward as some kind of stamp of approval for their appearance on the 2020 head count form, you’re also on bad turf.
Citizenship questions have been confined strictly to the sample forms because the Bureau has long recognized that trying to assess everyone’s citizenship in times of hyper-xenophobic, anti-immigrant politics would destroy the count.
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12 Jun 19
It's another day ending in "-day," so of course folks are spreading bad history to protect the #2020Census citizenship question. Claims that these questions have a deep history, etc. are misleading, where they’re not outright FALSE. Why? Stroll with me for a minute or two 👇
First, the receipts
We’ve comprehensively and exhaustively dismantled the mythical history of citizenship questions in The Georgetown Law Journal (@GeorgetownLJ): georgetownlawjournal.org/articles/311/c…
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30 May 19
Today's revelations about partisan motives behind the citizenship question just expose another layer of its bogusness. In fact, when it comes to the question and the Trump Admin's defense of it, it's been nothing but misdirection and deception, all the way down. Walk with me 👇
Where to start...
(1) The Trump Administration has claimed--in the courts and Congress--that it wanted to add the citizenship question because it would help enforce the Voting Rights Act. Three federal courts have concluded that this claim is FALSE.
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25 Apr 19
Today's win for voters challenging Michigan's gerrymandered election maps is major, potentially ushering in fairer elections in that state. But there are a couple of other reasons this is a major opinion, with SCOTUS implications. Mini-thread 👇@BrennanCenter #fairMaps
1. This win shows just how much the legal tide has turned vs. partisan gerrymandering. As late as 3 years ago, a win for plaintiffs would be unheard of. No longer. Recently, when/where courts have taken up partisan gerrymandering claims, plaintiffs have an impressive win rate.
2. The federal courts are converging on how to analyze partisan gerrymandering claims from a legal standpoint. As the panel in the Michigan case explained: ImageImage
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