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If we had a fair Supreme Court not driven by partisanship in its most political cases, Thursday’s blockbuster revelation in the census case would lead the court to unanimously rule in Department of Commerce v. New York to exclude the controversial citizenship question from the decennial survey. Those newly revealed documents show that the Trump administration’s purpose in putting the citizenship question on the upcoming census was not its stated one to help Hispanic voters under the Voting Rights Act, but rather to create policy that would be “a disadvantage to the Democrats” and “advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic Whites.” It’s difficult to produce a greater smoking gun than explicitly saying you are hoping to help the GOP by increasing white voting power. But this revelation, coming from the hard drive of a deceased Republican political operative and made available to Common Cause by his estranged daughter, is ironically more likely to lead the Republican-appointed conservative justices on the Supreme Court to allow the administration to include the question that would help states dilute the power of Hispanic voters.
[...]And here is where Thursday’s revelations fit in. The New York Times reported that the hard drive of the late Republican redistricting guru Thomas B. Hofeller contained documents indicating that the real purpose of including the citizenship question was to allow Republicans to draw new congressional, state, and local legislative districts using equal numbers of eligible voters in each district, not equal numbers of persons, a standard that would greatly reduce the power of Hispanics and Democrats in places like Texas. According to the Times, files on Hofeller’s hard drives, subpoenaed in litigation concerning North Carolina redistricting, show that Hofeller “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.”
[...]Thursday’s revelations should be damning. The ACLU is already seeking sanctions in the trial court in the census case for government officials lying about the real reason for including the citizenship question. But instead the revelations may help to prop up a case that should embarrass government lawyers to argue.
Yep.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 31 2019, @01:10AM (7 children)
I just got out of bed. Half awake. What I'm seeing is, an acknowledgement that the D's capitalize on, and exploit illegal aliens? I think we've been saying this all along. Thanks for the confirmation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 31 2019, @04:59AM (1 child)
And how is that any different from normal for you? Half-woke Runaway, peoples! There are things he does not know!
(And, he suffers from Confirmation Bias. So Sad.)
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Friday May 31 2019, @08:49AM
Your bias is showing too, Ari.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 31 2019, @07:26PM (4 children)
Shit yes they capitalize on illegals, though not as much or as literally as Republicans do. The illegals are in a hellish catch-22 and I would not wish their situation on anyone but my worst enemies. And maybe people like you, just for it to be a learning experience :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 31 2019, @07:39PM (3 children)
It's a catch-22 of their own making. They weren't invited to crash the border, and break laws. In most cases, they PAID for the privilege of breaking the law.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 01 2019, @01:22AM (2 children)
No dispute there. But ask yourself, what is it that would make people desperate enough to do something like that? And, does US foreign policy have anything to do with it, for example? All things are interconnected. Karma is a bitch.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 01 2019, @01:39AM (1 child)
Cash payments, among other things, will cause people to jump a border. That, and promises of economic reward. It seems that Soros is actively recruiting people in Central America to join the caravans. SOMEONE is certainly financing the caravans!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 01 2019, @03:30PM
Holy hell, now you've descended to the "OMG yew gaize it's SOROS!!!!111one" level. You're deteriorating even faster than I suspected. I'm going to be watching with a kind of sick, morbid curiosity, taking internal bets on how long before you go postal.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...