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13 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
VICTORY: The Trump administration is abandoning its unconstitutional plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to determine seats in Congress.
We promised that if the Trump administration tried to implement this illegal plan, we’d see them in court.

We meant it — we always do.

But, we won’t need to this time: Trump lost all on his own.
Trump: 0⃣

The Constitution: 2⃣
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