Trump Plans To Use Census Citizenship Question To Rig Elections For Republicans
Trump Plans To Use Census Citizenship Question To Rig Elections For Republicans
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/30/trump-plans-to-use-census-citizenship-question-to-rig-elections-for-republicans.html/amp
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Documents show that Trump is planning on using the census citizenship question to reshape the electorate to the Republican Party’s advantage.
The New York Times reported:
Files on those drives showed that he wrote a study in 2015 concluding that adding a citizenship question to the census would allow Republicans to draft even more extreme gerrymandered maps to stymie Democrats. And months after urging President Trump’s transition team to tack the question onto the census, he wrote the key portion of a draft Justice Department letter claiming the question was needed to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act — the rationale the administration later used to justify its decision.
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Mr. Hofeller’s exhaustive analysis of Texas state legislative districts concluded that such maps “would be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites,” and would dilute the political power of the state’s Hispanics.
The reason, he wrote, was that the maps would exclude traditionally Democratic Hispanics and their children from the population count. That would force Democratic districts to expand to meet the Constitution’s one person, one vote requirement. In turn, that would translate into fewer districts in traditionally Democratic areas, and a new opportunity for Republican mapmakers to create even stronger gerrymanders.
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And more on the topic:
https://thinkprogress.org/thomas-hofeller-trump-census-racist-rigging-5ab9f81864bd/
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He's a role-model repukelicken.
Why stop now Donald? They'll let you do anything...
...but won't (according to NBC's Pete Williams). 
