New Docs Detail Trump’s Plan To Exploit 2020 Census

The New York Times reports:

A new stash of documents obtained by Congress has confirmed that the Trump administration pushed to add a citizenship question to the census to help Republicans win elections, not to protect people’s voting rights, a House committee report concluded on Wednesday.

The report from the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the culmination of a yearslong investigation, detailed new findings based on drafts of internal memos and secret email communications between political appointees at the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, and counterparts in the Justice Department.

The documents provided the most definitive evidence yet that the Trump administration aimed to exclude noncitizens from the count to influence congressional apportionment that would benefit the Republican Party, the report concluded, and that senior officials used a false pretext to build a legal case for asking all residents of the United States whether they were American citizens.

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Trump wanted the citizenship question on the 2020 census for one reason: electoral gain. New findings come from internal communications between political appointees. “I think that’s our hook here.” https://t.co/9VE8butBtJ

— Miriam Jordan (@mirjordan) July 20, 2022