2020 census update – citizenship question

If it were not already obvious, the decision to add a citizenship question to the decennial census is a purely political one and is not about improving the quality of the data or obtaining better citizenship information in a less obtrusive manner https://t.co/2IfRlRV8gz

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) October 27, 2018

Yet another smoking gun showing how Trump trying to rig 2020 census. Sessions didn't even allow Census Bureau to weigh in on citizenship question that could tank entire census by massively suppressing immigrant responses https://t.co/NaG7re7hmu

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 27, 2018

Thread on the 2020 census citizenship question. First, my Bloomberg column arguing strongly against including a citizenship question on the 2020 census: https://t.co/rdJNtCQVTw [1/N]

— Michael R. Strain (@MichaelRStrain) July 24, 2018

There’s only one chance every decade to get the Census right. Demand a fair & accurate #2020Census without a citizenship question that furthers Steve Bannon and @KrisKobach1787's political agenda. @vanitaguptaCR https://t.co/rR1fTZpwoI

— Let America Vote (@letamericavote) July 24, 2018

How extreme the proposal is – no one was willing to publicly endorse it at one of the flagship conservative think tanks https://t.co/k1kUKSCTv7

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) July 24, 2018

This email shows that Commerce Sec's claim that DOJ first requested citizenship question to better enforce Voting Rights Act was a total lie https://t.co/eLQtwhwXb0

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) September 17, 2018

2/The bottom of the email then says that Commerce would try to figure out some way that they could add the citizenship question themselves, without having to rely on DOJ. But apparently they later realized that they needed DOJ for the pretext.

— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) September 17, 2018

What this and related emails we've obtained show is that Commerce toyed with the idea of not counting non-citizens AT ALL as part of the Census. They were then told that an old DOJ opinion said that would be illegal, so they apparently turned to Plan B. cc: @dale_e_ho https://t.co/alZdwmnTf3

— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) September 13, 2018

Ross caught lying to congress to facilitate a miscounting of the population to malaportion House districts and it doesn’t even make a ripple amidst the other shit they are pulling. https://t.co/YFws4gFknj

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 17, 2018