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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022

Newly Released Documents Show Just How Much Trump Officials Meddled With the Census

Author:     Russ Choma
Source:     Mother Jones
Publication Date:     January 15, 2022
 Link: Newly Released Documents Show Just How Much Trump Officials Meddled With the Census
Stephan:   Every day brings more criminal activity to light by Trump and his orcs seeking to destroy democracy to keep him in power. How is it possible that a man so obviously criminal and corrupt is actually increasing in popularity, as the Gallup survey in the previous article reports? I think the answer is the fear of lower I.Q. White people, fueled by corporate and uber-rich dark money interests who see them as exploitable and expendable peasants. The MAGAts are frightened that their world is changing in ways they neither understand nor like. (See yesterday's SR for a lengthy article on this). That said, unless we can, as a nation, understand that we are becoming a multi-racial, multi-ethnic country, we are headed into White supremacy, male dominant, christofascism, and will remain poorly prepared for the challenges of climate change.

Former president Donald Trump made no secret of his interest in meddling with the 2020 Census. But newly released documents show the extraordinary measures his political appointees took to alter the outcome—and the strong pushback they encountered from Census Bureau career staff.

An accurate and total count of all people living in the country every 10 years is one of the few government functions explicitly described in the Constitution, and the outcomes of the Census determine everything from congressional representation to how federal aid is distributed. With the 2020 election fast approaching and a pandemic making it even more difficult to complete, the Trump administration began pressuring Census officials to wrap up their counting early—a decision that could have potentially benefited the GOP and Trump if the final count failed to capture certain harder-to-measure demographics like immigrants.

In the summer of 2020, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University began trying to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain details of just how these decisions were being made, and after their requests were denied, filed a lawsuit. The […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 11:28 am

    Trump wanted to make it possible for more Republicans to win elections, of course. I hope people can see what really happened and vote more toward the Democratic people running for office.