In Broad Daylight – Ep. 24 – “Understanding the Census Wars”

Adam looks into the controversy surrounding the 2020 United States Census and why that citizenship question matters so much

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Reference Links

The March, 2018 Announcement – https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-adds-citizenship-question-to-2020-census

The Census and Japanese Internment Camps – https://wamu.org/story/18/12/27/some-japanese-americans-wrongfully-imprisoned-during-wwii-oppose-census-question/

Justification – https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/08/trump-administration-has-changed-its-story-census-citizenship-question-least-times-four-months/?utm_term=.86bcb1facc35

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-battle-over-the-census-citizenship-question-is-now-about-civil-rights

The Voting Rights Act – https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/democrats-hope-restore-key-section-voting-rights-act/583969/ 

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-strikes-down-current-coverage-formula-voting-rights-act-1

Thomas Hofeller – http://bit.ly/2JHp77v

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-doj-decries-eleventh-hour-conspiracy-theory-to-save-the-census-citizenship-question/ 

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/paj9ng/a-screaming-siren-went-off-at-the-doj-over-trumps-census-citizenship-question

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/trumps-census-case-confession/593488/

Trump Gives Up – https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-census-trump-citizenship-20190702-story.html

Then He Doesn’t – https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/452043-barr-says-trump-admin-can-legally-add-citizenship-question-to-census

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-census-citizenship-question_n_5d239bdce4b0d11a78459438 

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/trump-roberts-supreme-court-citizenship-question-census.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/trump-weighs-executive-order-2020-census-citizenship-question-190706113833820.html 

The June 30th Stain –https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/08/trump-census-citizenship-2020-1573574

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/07/739369416/justice-department-changes-legal-team-behind-census-citizenship-question-case 

Criminal Contempt – https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/08/criminal-contempt-william-barr-wilbur-ross-census-1402210

Make America White Again – https://nypost.com/2019/07/08/pelosi-says-trump-is-trying-to-make-america-white-again-with-census-question/

https://freebeacon.com/politics/liberal-dark-money-group-head-trumps-census-citizenship-question-exemplifies-white-power/ 

Republican Strategist Says Illegal Immigrants Will Vote – https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/440136-if-you-dont-think-illegal-immigrants-are-voting-for-president-think-again

Republican Reaction to the 2010 Census – https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/republicans-try-to-rein-in-the-census-bureau/395210/

https://www.upi.com/Bachmann-Wont-fill-out-Census-form/79841245970075/

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