The Supreme Court will help Republicans rig the 2020 Census

Harris L 2020 census, Supreme Court June 4, 2019 1 Minute

I expect the Republican-controlled court to rule in favor of adding the citizenship question which will help Republicans by hurting Democrats. It won’t matter that the Trump administration has lied and that it was a blatantly political move that had nothing to do with enforcing the Voting Rights Act.

The Census case hinges on whether the Supreme Court will give its blessing to an overt effort to increase white political power, a dangerous step towards White Man’s Government by another name. https://t.co/WiUyGtjUpR
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 4, 2019

Read @JamilSmith on rigging the Census https://t.co/Y5BiUNs8Xl
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 4, 2019

Most important and overlooked story from last week: Why GOP wanted citizenship question on Census? To “be advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,” or, rather, to disenfranchise voters of color https://t.co/Bir3p9f8g3
— Kevin B. Blackistone (@ProfBlackistone) June 1, 2019

Even more proof emerges that the Trump administration is adding a citizenship question to help white Republicans. Is the Supreme Court going to care? I'm not optimistic: https://t.co/0whhwUqZCb
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) May 30, 2019

This week the hood came off. The administration’s census citizenship question is racism justified with a lie: https://t.co/Ifc91QmQQQ
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) May 31, 2019

I know there's a lot going on these days, but the GOP trying to manipulate the census to undercount non-Whites and lying to the court about it is a political scandal that will massively impact this country for decades. Everyone should be paying attention. https://t.co/kuYxk938q8
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) May 31, 2019

It’s always been clear why the Trump Administration put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census:

To decrease political representation for immigrant communities for their own partisan advantage.

Now there are receipts. https://t.co/XgdPfONWzy
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 30, 2019

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