The whole point of messing with the Census was a political scheme to facilitate the Republican gerrymandering of the United States Congress, state legislatures, and local governments nationwide. This is a mission critical for a dying party that can survive only by cheating democracy. So it is that while Donald Trump's attempt to add a citizenship question to the Census failed, the mission continues.
The Census scheming was thwarted when, as Dale Ho, the director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, notes, the Supreme Court “saw through [Trump's] lie about needing the [citizenship] question for the Voting Rights Act. It is clear he simply wanted to sow fear in immigrant communities and turbocharge Republican gerrymandering efforts by diluting the political influence of Latino communities.”
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