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New Evidence Completely Undermines Trump Administration's Census Claims
by Jerry Lambe | 11:14 am, June 15th, 2019
Plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census revealed new evidence Friday which appears to directly contradict claims made by the administration in its court filing last week.
The challengers filed documents Friday with the U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel illustrating that the recently deceased Republican strategist Thomas Hofeller had been in direct contact with high-level officials at the Census Bureau regarding the addition of a citizenship question.
“These newly discovered documents…eliminate any colorable doubt about the link between Hofeller and government employees involved in the citizenship question approval process,” the challengers’ attorneys wrote in a letter to Hazel.
The citizenship question controversy stems from records released last month by the estate of Thomas Hofeller, a Republican gerrymandering specialist, which purported to show that Hofeller specifically orchestrated the addition of the citizenship census question to achieve Republican electoral advantages.
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