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Democrats pounce on citizenship question revelations
While the new information could inflame the political tensions of the case, it's unclear how it might affect that decision or if the Supreme Court would even consider it.
What was the question for the SCOTUS?
(1) Whether the district court erred in enjoining the secretary of the Department of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census on the ground that the secretary's decision violated the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 701 et seq;
(2) whether, in an action seeking to set aside agency action under the APA, a district court may order discovery outside the administrative record to probe the mental processes of the agency decision maker* ...;
(3) whether the secretary's decision to add a citizenship question to the decennial census violated the enumeration clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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State of New York v. U.S. Dep't of Commerce | NEW! exhibits of perjury
"A. He [Tom Hoffler] said that after the long-form data went away in 2000, that the quality of block level citizen voting age population had now diminished. So the -- so the ability to draw a district which would elect a Latino in a population where there were non-citizens was very, very difficult."
The Racial Dot Map | 2010 Census Block Data
"a closer look reveals a greater degree of racial segregation between different neighborhoods"
Segregation's Legacy
"Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act was signed, America is nearly as segregated as when President Lyndon Johnson signed the law."
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* The "revelation" maintains that Commerce Dept. agents lied about the purpose of the survey question. It is not to improve Voting Rights Act enforcement. It is to improve GOP gerrymandered district mapping by "non-citizen". After gain/loss of House seats among the states. Because GOP "voter fraud" suppression is rife.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Jun 2nd, 2019 at 02:49:28 AM EST
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