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NEW: The Biden administration and the House Oversight and Reform Committee have reached an agreement that could end the almost two-year legal battle over redacted Trump administration documents about the now-blocked census citizenship question
documentcloud.org/documents/2105…
2. House oversight committee members/staff can look at & take notes about docs to prepare a narrower request, but some info will still be redacted.

I wonder why Trump admin emails about the census would also mention unrelated "Department of Justice memoranda from the 1980s"? The priority documents and the additional documents selected
3. Here are the redacted emails about the census that the Trump administration tried so hard to stop the House Oversight and Reform Committee from seeing, sparking this lawsuit:
npr.org/2019/06/14/732…
4. May 2, 2017 email sent to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross by Commerce Department official Earl Comstock
documentcloud.org/documents/4616… From: Comstock, Earl (Federal)? Sent: 5/2/2017 2:19:11 PM T
5. May 2, 2017 email sent to Ross' chief of staff, Wendy Teramoto, by Ross
documentcloud.org/documents/4616… From: Wilbur Ross Sent: 5/2/2017 2:23:38 PM To: Teramot
6. Aug. 8, 2017 email sent to Comstock by Ross
documentcloud.org/documents/6152… To: Wiibur Ross[? From: Comstock, Eari (Federal) Sent: Tue
7. Aug. 10, 2017 email sent to Comstock by Ross
documentcloud.org/documents/4872… From: Wilbur Ross! Sent: 8/10/2017 7:38:25 PM To: Comst
8. The House oversight committee asked the Trump administration to release the "Census Memo Draft2 Aug 11 2017" that was attached to this Aug. 11, 2017 email sent to Ross by Comstock
documentcloud.org/documents/4616… On Aug 11, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Comstock, Earl ( F e d e r a l
9. Sept. 1, 2017 email sent to Comstock by Ross
documentcloud.org/documents/6152… I have received no update, nor has there been an update nor
10. Sept. 1, 2017 email sent to Ross by Comstock
documentcloud.org/documents/6153… From: Comstock, Earl (Federal) _doc.gov] Sent: 9/1/2017 3:2
11. Sept. 7, 2017 email sent to Comstock by Commerce Department attorney James Uthmeier
documentcloud.org/documents/6152… To: Comstock, Earl (Federal)? From: Uthmeier, James (Federa
12. Dec. 20, 2017 email sent to Uthmeier by White House official John Zadrozny
documentcloud.org/documents/6152… From: Zadrozny, John A. i Sent: 12/20/2017 1:46:17 AM T
13. Feb. 26, 2018 email sent to Commerce Department attorney Michael Walsh by Uthmeier
documentcloud.org/documents/6153… From: Uthmeier, James (Federal) ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP Sent:
14. Btw, Trump admin's failed push for a census citizenship question followed a playbook by the Federation for American Immigration Reform for getting a count of unauthorized immigrants to radically reshape Congress, the Electoral College and public policy
npr.org/2021/02/15/967…
15. Worth noting this August 2017 email by James Uthmeier appears to foreshadow what became Trump admin's ultimate strategy — citing 1992 SCOTUS ruling to argue the president can decide whether to include unauthorized immigrants in the apportionment counts
documentcloud.org/documents/5022… Aug. 11, 2017 Email from James Uthmeier To Earl Comstock; &q

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SCOOP: Former President Donald Trump's payroll tax delay last year left a $7 million accounting mess for the Census Bureau, which has been trying to get ~28K former census workers to pay off their debt after giving up trying to collect from ~148K others
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I asked the office of Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. — who blocked an attempt to confirm Census Bureau director nominee Robert Santos by unanimous consent in October — why Scott said he's concerned Santos will “politicize" the bureau & not serve "in a fair and unbiased fashion"...
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Instead, Scott's communications director, McKinley Lewis, gave this statement by email: The Census Bureau performs critically important functions to
3. I am waiting for any direct response to this follow-up question:

Does Sen. Rick Scott consider Robert Santos not qualified or competent to serve as Census Bureau director? If so, why?
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NEW: The 2020 census likely undercounted people of color at rates higher than those of the last count, an @urbaninstitute study finds. That could translate into inequities in political representation & federal funding across the U.S. for the next 10 years
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@urbaninstitute 3. Let's also keep in mind: When people of color are undercounted in the census, it's not just "some" groups who miss out on federal funding and political representation — it's *everyone* living in the local communities and states where there are people of color.
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