Trump administration drops citizenship question from 2020 census

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: The Hill

Trump administration drops citizenship question from 2020 census

BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 07/02/19 04:58 PM EDT

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it was dropping a citizenship question from the 2020 census, days after the Supreme Court ruled against the question’s inclusion.

Former Obama White House lawyer Daniel Jacobson made the revelation in a tweet Tuesday, sharing a screenshot of an email he received from a Justice Department lawyer confirming the decision.

DOJ attorney Kate Bailey confirmed the decision in an email sent Tuesday to groups challenging the question, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill.

"We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process," Bailey wrote.


Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco also confirmed that the citizenship question would not be included on the census.
President Trump had initially said after the ruling that he wanted to delay the 2020 census in order to continue to try to add a citizenship question to the form.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451431-trump-administration-drops-citizenship-question-from-2020-census

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Sheesh; so many pop-ups.

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Steve Lookner Retweeted

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Census will go forward without a citizenship question it appears

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ORIGINAL:

HUGE CENSUS NEWS -- the Government just advised that the decision has been made to print the the census questionnaire WITHOUT the citizenship question. We won.

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Here's the email from DOJ

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Thread in GD, same source, 4:42 p.m.:

Per Former Obama WH lawyer Daniel Jacobson - no citizenship question on census:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212236907

[pnwmom]

1. Never assume it's a win. They could just add an addendum, if the courts went their way. n/t

[Fullduplexxx]

2. And dont assume this is over, trump is a vindictive weasel

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Exactly

or some corrupt bureaucrats ... using verbal verification ... untraceable ... if you don't answer this question I cannot process your form ... or just excluding those "suspected" of being non-citizens ... or having "alien-sounding" surnames

Trump will pull every trick in the book, with Stephen Miller conducting

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. I don't trust them...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. WaPo not so sure:

The Plum Line • Opinion

Trump’s efforts to rig the census may already be working

By Paul Waldman, Opinion writer covering politics
July 2 at 12:48 PM

One of the characteristic features of Donald Trump’s presidency is how he has taken the institutions and practices that used to be considered outside partisanship and above the interests of any individual, and turned them to his own ends.

In some cases, it’s for his own personal aggrandizement, as he’s doing by turning the traditional Fourth of July event from a celebration of the country’s independence to a celebration of himself. In others, as with the 2020 Census, it’s to use the federal government to advance the interests of the Republican Party.
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Most importantly, Trump seems to think that the census is some kind of enforcement arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, attempting “to find out if somebody’s a citizen as opposed to an illegal.” As the Census Bureau itself notes, it does not share information with law enforcement agencies.

That too is something Trump might or might not be aware of, but what we can say for certain is that he would like people to believe it’s not true. Nothing would make Trump happier than if every immigrant thought that filling out the census form would mean that ICE agents are going to be busting down their doors. The more frightened immigrants are of census takers, the less likely they’ll be to answer the census, which will accomplish the goal of enhancing the political power of Republicans and whites.
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Paul Waldman is an opinion writer for the Plum Line blog. Follow https://twitter.com/paulwaldman1

[BumRushDaShow]

5. WaPo finally got the story (just got the breaking banner)

2020 Census will not include citizenship question, DOJ confirms

By Ann E. Marimow and Tara Bahrampour
July 2 at 5:11 PM

The Trump administration is dropping plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the Justice Department confirmed in an email Tuesday just days after the Supreme Court described the rationale for the question as “contrived.”

The decision to back away from the controversial question was a victory for civil rights advocates concerned that the query would lead to an inaccurate count of immigrant communities that could skew representation and federal funding.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/2020-census-will-not-include-citizenship-question-doj-confirms/2019/07/02/0067be4a-9c44-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html

[orangecrush]

6. GOOD

[Gothmog]

8. Yeah

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[SergeStorms]

10. One of many losses...

coming for this piece of shit and his grifter family. Donald Trump: Meet the law. You've been estranged from it for the past 70 years or so, and it's coming for you with a vengeance!

[Talitha]

9. Typical Shitler tactic: Create chaos; Back down; Become a hero.

Lordy, this guy's a real piece of work.

[watoos]

11. A lot of the damage has already been done.

Many Hispanics and others may be afraid to fill out the census even without the citizenship question.

[paleotn]

12. I trust this lot as far as I can throw them.

[murielm99]

13. I want to see the printed forms

before I will believe it.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. Judge sets call for 3:30 w/ lawyers in the wake of Trump's tweet which contradicts what DOJ....

FreedomTanksHat Retweeted

Ever had a judge call you back in just before a holiday because of a tweet?

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Judge Hazel, who is presiding over Maryland census citizenship case, has set a call for 3:30 w/ lawyers in the wake of Trump's tweet which contradicts what Justice Dept lawyers told him yesterday

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