NEW: The chair of @TheBlackCaucus, @RepBeatty (D-Ohio), is joining @RepDavids (D-Kan.) and the chairs of the @CAPAC and @HispanicCaucus in calling for Trump's Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham to resign for trying to rush out an inaccurate data report about noncitizens
@TheBlackCaucus@RepBeatty@RepDavids@CAPAC@HispanicCaucus 2. “In using the Census Bureau to carry out a political agenda, Dr. Steven Dillingham has made it clear that he cannot be trusted to lead the agency in producing accurate, fair, and quality data needed to inform the 2020 Census," Rep. @sharicedavids (D-Kan.) says
NEW: Census Bureau instructs staff to comply with the court order in Nat'l Urban League-led lawsuit that bans, before Biden is sworn in, the release of census data that would allow Trump to alter counts that determine representation in Congress & Electoral College for next decade
2. Here's the link to the Census Bureau's full statement about the National Urban League-led lawsuit being put on hold until Feb. 5: census.gov/newsroom/press…
BREAKING: Trump administration attorneys confirm to a federal judge that Census Bureau and the Commerce Department will not release the data needed for Trump to try to alter census apportionment counts before the end of his term, as first reported by @NPR beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2045…
@NPR 2. Justice Department attorneys & plaintiffs in the National Urban League-led lawsuit are asking U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh to put this suit over the Trump admin's census schedule changes on hold for 3 weeks to allow the incoming Biden admin to "assess" the case.
@NPR 3. Justice Department attorneys acknowledge that the Trump administration remains under "obligations to respond to information requests from Congress or the Office of the
Inspector General"
NEW: Calls for the resignation of the Census Bureau's Trump-appointed director — Steven Dillingham, whose term ends on Dec. 31 — are now coming from Democrats in Congress. including @RepJudyChu, Rep. @GerryConnolly (L) and @SenatorShaheen (R) (H/T @ZachMontellaro & @lbarronlopez)
NEW: Trump's Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham tells @CommerceOIG that he has directed career employees to "stand down" and stop trying to produce a technical data report about noncitizens after whistleblowers raised concerns about data inaccuracy census.gov/content/dam/Ce…
@CommerceOIG 2. Dillingham's memo replying to Commerce Dept Inspector General Peggy Gustafson provides the Census Bureau director's account of why he said the technical data report on noncitizens should be a "number one priority." My earlier reporting for background: npr.org/2021/01/12/956…
@CommerceOIG 3. Before Trump put out the July 2020 memo calling for unauthorized immigrants to be omitted from apportionment counts, he put out this July 2019 executive order about using government records to produce data after losing the citizenship-question battle whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
NEW: Leading census advocates are calling for Census Bureau Dir. Steven Dillingham, a Trump appointee, to immediately resign for prioritizing "unconstitutional & premature production" of a data report on noncitizens. From @ArturoNALEO, @johncyangdc & @Wade4Justice@civilrightsorg
@ArturoNALEO@johncyangdc@Wade4Justice@civilrightsorg 2. "Dillingham’s order to divert precious staff time away from producing the apportionment count & into producing data on citizens & noncitizens for political, partisan purposes is a betrayal of the mission of the Bureau," they say.
EXCLUSIVE: The Census Bureau has stopped trying to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants that President Trump requested to alter the census numbers used for reallocating congressional seats & Electoral College votes among the states, @NPR has learned npr.org/2021/01/13/956…
@NPR 2. Senior career officials at the bureau instructed the internal team assigned to carry out Trump's presidential memo to cease their work immediately on Tuesday night, according to a bureau employee who spoke to @NPR on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
@NPR 3. The move by civil servants effectively ends the bureau's participation in Trump's bid to make an unprecedented change to who is counted in the 2020 census apportionment counts, which according to the 14th Amendment, must include the "whole number of persons in each state."