A federal judge on Monday suggested that the proposal for a question about citizenship on the 2020 census may have had a “discriminatory purpose,” TalkingPointsMemo reports.
U.S. District Judge George Hazel of Maryland ruled last week that a case on the citizenship question can be reopened based on new evidence that “potentially connects the dots between a discriminatory purpose” and the citizenship question, the judge wrote in his opinion Monday.
Civil rights groups that sued the government over the question asked Hazel to reconsider his previous ruling after the discovery of the new evidence: files on the hard drives of late Republican strategist Thomas Hofeller. Hofeller reportedly had among his files a secret study he conducted in 2015, in which he found that excluding non-citizens from the census count when drawing districts would improve the numbers for Republican and non-Hispanic whites. This study also concluded that a citizenship question would be needed for this to happen.
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Yes - we don't want non-citizens to have any impact on our governing processes!
ReplyDeleteI’m quite sure that including the citizenship question is discriminatory. I’m just as certain that not including the question is discriminatory AGAINST TAX PAYING CITIZENS!!!
ReplyDeleteIndeed it does discriminate against people who entered the country illegally and have no right to anything.How does an illegal person have the right to essentially cancel out a legal resident?
ReplyDeleteThe judge is a communist obviously
ReplyDeleteThe judge is afraid his housekeepers and gardeners might be deported???
ReplyDeleteNorthwest Woodsman: Yup, it is certainly discrimination. It discriminates against those who are illegals, felons, and other non citizens who have no right to vote or participate in our process. Love this blog! Can’t believe so many others out there who agree with me. I sometimes feel like a Jedburgh who has parachuted into France behind German lines.
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