The Supreme Court banned the Trump administration from asking for citizenship during a census

The US Supreme Court ruled that the administration of US President Donald Trump did not provide a convincing explanation for the need to include a clause on citizenship in the 2020 census of the year. CNBC.

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The decision of the court was a victory for the states that challenged the proposal of the White House. At the same time, there is no clear decision in the court ruling on the issue of complete exclusion of this paragraph, which means that this question should be included in the questionnaire in future population censuses.

The constitution requires the government to conduct a census every 10 years, and the results of the survey are used to allocate billions of dollars in funding. The census is also used to determine representation in the electoral chamber.

Critics of the issue of nationality argue that its introduction will lead to less accurate data and disproportionately damage cities and states with a large immigrant population, as well as immigrants themselves. The issue of citizenship was excluded from the questionnaire from 1950 of the year.

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The discussion about the addition of the question was fierce, since the census can have widespread consequences that will last for decades. According to forecasts of the Census Bureau, if this issue is included in the census, then at least 6,5 million people may not take part in the census. As a result, California, Texas, Arizona, Florida, New York and Illinois face a serious risk of losing a seat in the House of Representatives.

The Trump administration has admitted in court that including the issue of citizenship can make the survey less accurate. But the Commerce Department argued that this issue would allow the government to better enforce certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act.

This justification did not pass the test before three federal courts, each of which blocked the addition of the question. These courts in New York, Maryland and California found that the rationale proposed by the Department of Commerce was only a pretext.

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The official rationale for this issue has been the subject of further study in recent weeks after the appearance of new documents, which provided new evidence of political motives behind the addition of the question. Documents were received by the Common Cause government control group and provided to the judges.

One of the documents uncovered by the group was the unpublished 2015 study of the influential Republican redistribution expert, who found that adding the issue of citizenship could benefit “Republicans and non-Hispanic whites” if the data are used in the redistribution.

The author of the study, Thomas Hofeller, apparently helped to draft a letter from the Department of Justice for 2017 year to the Department of Commerce, which contained the rationale for the Voting Rights Act on the issue of citizenship, documents show.

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After Hofeller died in August, his daughter found hard drives in her father’s house and handed them over to the cause.

“The Supreme Court viewed the Commerce Department's explanation as pure pretext. The attempt to add the question at the last minute was clearly a cover to hide their true motives - to rig the redistribution,” said Cathay Fen, director of redistribution at Common Cause.

The Trump administration denies that Hofeller played any role in the Department of Justice’s request for citizenship.

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