Rubio Tweet Links Census Citizenship Question To Redistricting
By Tierney Sneed at TPM
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/rubio-census-citizenship-question-tweet
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in a tweet Wednesday linked the Trump administration’s controversial push to add a citizenship question to the Census to an approach to drawing districts that would boost Republican power.
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Latest absurd freak out is over #census2020 citizenship question. In every nation citizenship matters, so shouldn’t we know how many we have? And districts apportioned based on # of people not here legally dilutes the political representation of citizens & legal residents.
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Rubio is not the first conservative to suggest that data gathered by asking about citizenship on the decennial Census could be used to draw districts based on number of citizens or eligible voters, rather than total population. Currently, states use total population.
The Commerce Department’s own justification for adding the question has instead focused on the need to help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act. Civil rights advocates and Census experts have been extremely skeptical of that rationale, and of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ willingness to grant the request.
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