Trump’s bigoted attack on the 2020 Census

NEW: Sharing my ⁦⁦@washingtonpost⁩ oped on how the Trump administration is once again trying to sabotage the census to advance its anti-immigrant agenda & silence communities of color – for partisan gain. We can’t let it. Too much is at stake. https://t.co/eMuwWwoi2P

— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) August 4, 2020

The Census Bureau announced that field data collection will end a full month earlier than originally planned https://t.co/xjedXcefI0

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 4, 2020

And will Rs in TX FL AZ GA, states that would be hurt overall by #census cutoff, stand up for their state or the party’s overall desire to minimize minority count? @JohnCornyn @GregAbbott_TX @dougducey @SenMcSallyAZ etc? https://t.co/RWDA4KjCpg

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 4, 2020

Same reason the post office is being starved – because the Trump administration believes it will benefit them & other Republicans by marginalizing people of color. Every possible government function is being racially weaponized-w/the consent & participation of the GOP Congress https://t.co/gYYVLJUQdg

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 4, 2020

SCOOP: @NPR has confirmed the Census Bureau is cutting #2020Census door knocking at unresponsive homes a month short, ending on Sept. 30, amid growing concerns that the White House is pressuring the bureau to stop counting soon for political gain.https://t.co/sRxXbGQXOs

— Hansi Lo Wang • 5️⃣7️⃣ DAYS (@hansilowang) July 31, 2020

Census Director Dillingham yesterday declined to join the political fight over Trump's memo on excluding undocumented residents. But his silence before Congress doesn't remove the dark political clouds hanging over the 2020 census and the agency he leads https://t.co/cIPmrwCL7m

— Jeffrey Mervis (@jeffmervis) July 30, 2020

Census director says he was unaware of Trump's memo that aims to bar undocumented immigrants from being included in the census for purposes of deciding how many members of Congress are apportioned to each state until it was public and that bureau did not provide any input > https://t.co/bz4AmMdzOC

— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) July 29, 2020

Perspective: Trump’s push to skew the census builds on a long history of politicizing the count https://t.co/qucCscgBuk

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 26, 2020

A intentional, hidden detail of Trump's (almost certainly unconstitutional) effort to keep undocumented immigrants from being used to reapportion House seats? Shifting more of those seats and more electoral votes to the GOP. https://t.co/dYno3gVSxj

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 22, 2020

It has been an exhausting four years for civil rights lawyers, but a challenge to Trump’s latest assault on the law will be an easy victory. Constitution requires census to count “persons,” not “citizens.” https://t.co/woeEKQhEbs

— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) July 22, 2020

No question. Sec.2 of the 14th Amendment says:

“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons . . .”

Get it, Trump? “THE WHOLE NUMBER OF PERSONS.”

Not MINUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! https://t.co/0YDskXRiJQ

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 21, 2020

Trump's order on apportionment could shift a few House seats from some states to others, potentially helping Republicans, but it will almost certainly wind up challenged in court. @katierogers https://t.co/XHeMotADuE

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 21, 2020

President Trump signed a memorandum today that seeks to ban immigrants in the U.S. illegally from the census and, as a result, exclude them from the process that determines how many members of Congress are allocated to each state https://t.co/ZjdrmGbsxw

— POLITICO (@politico) July 21, 2020

And just as a reminder, in 1920 Congress did not accept the apportionment numbers presented to them by the White House https://t.co/C2QVLYahJd

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) July 21, 2020