update 10/18/18
And can we please not forget that the former chief of the US Cesus Bureau was pushed out under mysterious circumstances right around the… https://t.co/uXQ4odiYh3
— Baltimore Fiber (@BmoreFiber) October 18, 2018
He said the idea for the citizenship question came from the Justice Department. Now we learn it was political (like many of us suspected). Sad!
Opinion: President Trump’s effort to rig the census is a deepening scandal https://t.co/0llJmJywfK
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 12, 2018
This really is extraordinary. To see this email emerge after statements by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in March, dismissing suggestions that the Census question re citizenship was driven by politics or White House intervention. pic.twitter.com/jY9fIYcKOZ
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 12, 2018
California is vulnerable to an undercount in the 2020 census that could overlook more than 1.6 million people and cost the state one of its seats in the House of Representatives, a new study has found. https://t.co/LCG23S8XOr
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) October 10, 2018
Trump administration admits Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach were involved in adding census citizenship question: https://t.co/JQlR6wkeJK pic.twitter.com/dJoqPopkCq
— Slate (@Slate) October 13, 2018
Democrats slam Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for being part of a "secret campaign" to push for a citizenship question to be added to the 2020 census https://t.co/PGmBXAWh6f pic.twitter.com/TBLa9YkKoT
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 13, 2018
Ross's testimony already earned him Four Pinocchios –> https://t.co/BUquzuFeB5 https://t.co/f3wpqKD5Q3
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 12, 2018
I testified before a House committee a year ago today about the importance of a fair & accurate #2020Census.
As I said then: There are no do-overs with the census. The Census Bureau MUST get it right the first time, and all of us must live with the results for the next 10 years. https://t.co/NHUYgRzzRe
— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) October 12, 2018
“Discrepancies in his account of the drafting of the question “have placed the credibility of Secretary Ross squarely at issue,” Judge Jesse M. Furman, of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, wrote last month in ordering the deposition to go forward.” https://t.co/HJkhVKxeUJ
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 13, 2018
New: US appeals court says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can't dodge deposition in lawsuit over citizenship question on 2020 census https://t.co/ChZZ0Mnxcb pic.twitter.com/o3lzatscjX
— Mike Scarcella (@MikeScarcella) October 9, 2018
Sad! 