Ever since we saw Wilbur Ross trying to put a Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census, we knew that phuckery was afoot. The Constitution is very clear – everyone in the United States is to be counted. Period. There has always been some finagling with the Census – hell, it’s how we got the 3/5 compromise.
But, when we saw that they wanted to put the Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census, it was nothing but rotten. WE KNOW that Ross LIED as to how the request for the question was done. He lied and said that the Justice Department wanted it put on the Census – to back up the Voting Rights Act. Are you kidding me? Lying like a mofo. When has THIS Justice Department given two shyts about the Voting Rights Act.
We know now that they LIED when they testified before Congress, and judges. Not just Ross, but a Trump Transition Official, and John Gore, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and the DoJ’s chief overseer of voting rights issues, also lied under oath about the intended effects of the census question and the origin of the documents.
So now, because of this NYTimes Article, the intent for the Citizenship Question goes even BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION.
Hard Drives Reveal Details on Citizenship Question
May 30, 2019 at 8:59 am EDT
Thomas Hofeller achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering, the architect of partisan political maps that cemented the party’s dominance across the country, the New York Times reports.
But after he died last summer, his estranged daughter discovered hard drives in her father’s home that revealed something else: Mr. Hofeller had played a crucial role in the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Files on those drives showed that he wrote a study in 2015 concluding that adding a citizenship question to the census would allow Republicans to draft even more extreme gerrymandered maps to stymie Democrats… The disclosures represent the most explicit evidence to date that the Trump administration added the question to the 2020 census to advance Republican Party interests.
Files on those drives showed that he wrote a study in 2015 concluding that adding a citizenship question to the census would allow Republicans to draft even more extreme gerrymandered maps to stymie Democrats. And months after urging President Trump’s transition team to tack the question onto the census, he wrote the key portion of a draft Justice Department letter claiming the question was needed to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act — the rationale the administration later used to justify its decision.
Those documents, cited in a federal court filing Thursday by opponents seeking to block the citizenship question, have emerged only weeks before the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the legality of the citizenship question. Critics say adding the question would deter many immigrants from being counted and shift political power to Republican areas.…………….
The documents cited in the Thursday court filing include an unpublished August 2015 analysis by Mr. Hofeller, who was hired by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet financially backed by Paul Singer, a billionaire New York hedge fund manager and major Republican donor. Mr. Hofeller’s charge was to assess the impact of drawing political maps that were not based on a state’s total population — the current practice virtually everywhere in the nation — but on a slice of that population: American citizens of voting age.
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Mr. Hofeller’s exhaustive analysis of Texas state legislative districts concluded that such maps “would be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites,” and would dilute the political power of the state’s Hispanics.
The reason, he wrote, was that the maps would exclude traditionally Democratic Hispanics and their children from the population count. That would force Democratic districts to expand to meet the Constitution’s one person, one vote requirement. In turn, that would translate into fewer districts in traditionally Democratic areas, and a new opportunity for Republican mapmakers to create even stronger gerrymanders.
I want to tie this into another story that I read a few weeks ago, about the number of offices being cut for the 2020 Census. It is being done because of something the GOP did in 2014 – after they had taken back Congress. The DELIBERATE SABOTAGE OF THE CENSUS PREDATES DOLT45. So, when folks like me say, uh uh, you can’t isolate Dolt45 from the GOP. That they are ONE. That they are hooked together. Getting rid of Dolt45 doesn’t resolve the problem that the entire GOP is nothing but a rotten cesspool.
And, anything that resembles little ‘ d’-democracy, the GOP is against it. They know that the demographics are against them, but, they are determined that the MINORITY of this country will try and rule over the MAJORITY. THAT is why they must be defeated, because they do not want to live in a country where THEY aren’t ruling over us.
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1136655851207430144
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1136656679750307840
https://twitter.com/KurtNiceHHL/status/1134585740279656448
https://twitter.com/LeaundraRoss/status/1134462937400320000
https://twitter.com/JillWineBanks/status/1134452634163785728
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1134566480115142656
It was a ‘lone wolf’ right?😠😠
https://twitter.com/Johngcole/status/1134601718866620421
https://twitter.com/MrDane1982/status/1134593756055969792
https://twitter.com/Russian_Starr/status/1134569701948973057
https://twitter.com/Russian_Starr/status/1134571695015104514
Good thread
https://twitter.com/RyanFMandelbaum/status/1134208441961058304
Baquet is a clown 😠
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1134462163698032640
https://twitter.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1134579106559873026
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https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1134579254975442944
https://twitter.com/Fedup_Mom/status/1134578533861343232
https://twitter.com/gradifi/status/1121830711512784897
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1134270300797984774
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1134290904934735872
Second Lady?
https://twitter.com/AndrewGillum/status/1134570166354886656
WTF?
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1134534510857637888
Phucking Demons 😠😠 😠
Hannah Dreier (@hannahdreier) Tweeted:
Immigration officials in the deep south are classifying all asylum seekers as dangers to the community, and making them plead their cases from jail. In New Orleans, the number of asylum seekers denied bail jumped from 25% to 98.5% in the past two years. https://t.co/ywUiVnLeqs https://twitter.com/hannahdreier/status/1134486124309753857?s=17
Demons, I tell you. What did you expect – that they were being treated decently?
CNN reports that the DHS Inspector General did a surprise inspection of a border patrol station and found horrifying conditions
Happy Friday! Sen. Susan Collins’s approval rating in Maine has dropped 17 points since last spring in the biannual tracking poll Critical Insights conducts in Maine. S.E.V.E.N.T.E.E.N. And 10 points since last fall.
In what is “the longest-running consistently-administered tracking survey in the Northeast,” Collins dropped from a 58% approval a year ago, to 51% last fall, to 41% this spring. She also only gets a 46% approval rating among Republicans, and 31% from Democrats. In the words of the polling memo, “Approval of Senator Collins’s job performance has declined dramatically since last fall, reaching a new low.”
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https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1134459134068310017
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1134497877009620993
Dow Jones down 324 points.
Win win win
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https://twitter.com/SocialPowerOne1/status/1134500298796523521
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https://twitter.com/wasteIandbaby/status/1133933114789715968
Thread by @ChrisMurphyCT: “Morning. A THREAD: I’m starting a one hour drive to Mystic for a chamber of commerce speech so I’ve got some time assenger seat). I’m gonna try to list all the current foreign policy disasters caused by Trump. Not sure an h […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1134427536363012096.html
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1134510704621432832
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1134516363245039618
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/1134514357306445824
Uh huh 😒🙄
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1134465944972083200
https://twitter.com/WayAheadUK/status/1134473193832534016
Uh huh 😒🤨
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1134493055485194241
https://twitter.com/ZandarVTS/status/1134479015463587840
Chris Hayes talking with Ari Berman about the Census rigging.
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1134443179024035840
“…Harold Wilson, who spent 17 years in prison—most of it on death row—for a crime he did not commit, died May 18 from complications from a stroke. He was 61 years old. In 1989, Harold Wilson was convicted of a triple murder and sentenced to death by a Pennsylvania jury. A decade later, Wilson’s death sentence was overturned due to ineffective counsel. However, his murder convictions were not reversed, and he remained on death row for years. Finally, in October of 2005, Wilson won a new trial and was acquitted of all charges after DNA evidence proved his innocence. Speaking to Democracy Now! just after his exoneration, Wilson said he was released with 65 cents and a bus token.”
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1134480658166886404
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1134480922110246913
https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/1134429318153678849
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1134463345665306625
https://twitter.com/RepresentMeAZ/status/1133966878647431168
https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1134294307773591553
This is so cool…
https://twitter.com/lauren_lumps/status/1134139113215537154
But, how come I think that they won’t have a problem with their folks showing up on Fox?
Baquet is a phucking coon on the pole disappointment.
NYT doesn’t want its reporters appearing on Maddow or several other cable opinion shows, @joepompeo reports https://t.co/d5TkhHSymS— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) May 30, 2019
The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.” Dean Baquet “thinks it’s a real issue.”
https://twitter.com/RepRaulGrijalva/status/1134290884319731714
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1134297729562284039
Uh huh
Uh huh
Because this is who they are.
NC Republicans want budget cuts for new African-American chief justice. Democrats cry foul.
BY WILL DORAN
MAY 30, 2019 06:19 PM, UPDATED 1 HOUR 39 MINUTES AGO
Cheri Beasley, who earlier this year became the first African-American female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, will have her staff cut in half under a plan supported by Republicans in the N.C. Senate.
The state had a multi-million-dollar budget surplus this year, but Senate Republicans decided to eliminate funding for three of the six staffers who work for the state’s top judge.
Senate Democrats said it’s a politically motivated attack against Beasley, a Democrat who was appointed to the top job by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper after the previous chief justice, Republican Mark Martin, resigned to take a job leading a Virginia law school.
Two African-American Democratic senators, Floyd McKissick of Durham and Paul Lowe of Winston-Salem, led the criticism of their Republican colleagues during a debate Thursday.
Just brazen. Just right in your face and don’t give a damn
Dow Jones down 248.
So much winning.
Word of the Day : May 31, 2019
Shot-clog: noun SHAHT-klahg
Definition: a bore tolerated only because he or she pays the shot
Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office?
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
May 30, 2019
Uh huh 😒😠
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1134442486078812162
This trick, here😠😠😠
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1134298921554063362
https://twitter.com/miltshook/status/1134442416860045312
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1134441035839483905
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1134440319502692352
Good for them 👏👏
https://twitter.com/soulphoodie/status/1133929778971598849
Bianca Delarosa Harris Warren Castro O’Rourke (@Bravewriting) Tweeted:
Pro-Forced Birth Dems,
Freedom of choice or fuck off.
Freedom isn’t reserved for what you approve of, it is not a matter to settle among men, it isn’t even a matter of slaves in chains.
Women wear invisible chains.
Don’t you fucking dare make this shit harder than it is. https://twitter.com/Bravewriting/status/1133997660766031872?s=17
Brad Stark (@bradleystark) Tweeted:
@jaymichaelson @djrothkopf @thedailybeast I believe that Trump, MAGA and the GOP have nearly exhausted my capacity to be shocked. To me, the sum total of their actions has long suggested that they are moving to overrun our Constitution, strip us of our civil liberties and establish a dictatorship. https://twitter.com/bradleystark/status/1134181562692636672?s=17
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https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1134440708427960320
No one (@ungubunugu1274) Tweeted:
@jaymichaelson @thedailybeast The whole drumpf “presidency” is built on the idea of securing/cemenring white dominance in the US.
In reality this is white supremacy. https://twitter.com/ungubunugu1274/status/1134249290614882304?s=17
RiPPa (@RippDemUp) Tweeted:
I’m just going to go ahead and say it now: I want Kamala Harris to be the eventual nominee for two reasons. For one, because she’s a Democrat; and secondly, because she’s a Black woman. That’s it. That is all. Yes, fuck your feelings. https://twitter.com/RippDemUp/status/1134439729917812737?s=17
RiPPa (@RippDemUp) Tweeted:
I’m just going to go ahead and say it now: I want Kamala Harris to be the eventual nominee for two reasons. For one, because she’s a Democrat; and secondly, because she’s a Black woman. That’s it. That is all. Yes, fuck your feelings. https://twitter.com/RippDemUp/status/1134439729917812737?s=17
https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1134217522209787906
Their father would be so proud 😪😪😪
https://twitter.com/JenniferPinckn1/status/1134242500410056704
😂😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/MadisonKittay/status/1134291903137161217
https://twitter.com/vanitaguptaCR/status/1134227897290514432
https://twitter.com/cristianafarias/status/1134437581834375169
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https://twitter.com/DianaRoss/status/1134266234185248768
Uh huh 😒
https://twitter.com/callmedollar/status/1134418670724272128
Will Beto actually support her this time?😒😒
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1134224221616463878
https://twitter.com/MaraGay/status/1134152411512221696
Connect the dots 😒😒
https://twitter.com/Sister_District/status/1134439382386188288
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1134428609047859201
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https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/1134116140530061312
Yes 👏👏 👏
https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1134087492263731200
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MuslimMarine (@mansoortshams) Tweeted:
My OpEd piece today via Newsweek:
“My 12 year old son gave me a list of Islamaphobic names he’s been called.
This is today’s America.”
https://t.co/V9ErUBSfw8 https://twitter.com/mansoortshams/status/1134083865499361282?s=17
Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) Tweeted:
OK, for the morons in the back: placing tariffs on Mexican goods won’t actually stop those goods from coming in. Supply chains must be met. But, American buyers will be hit with larger costs. Really, Moron is the most economically illiterate to occupy the White House ever. https://twitter.com/Lib_Librarian/status/1134264612340191233?s=17
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/1134263722082480129
She is savvy.
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1134148531206479877
Good on Warren, for NOT backing down on outright common sense & decency.
ETHICS & MORALS COUNT, MOFOS!
https://twitter.com/cristianafarias/status/1134079343209132032
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https://twitter.com/agraybee/status/1134338108227497984
https://twitter.com/gregpinelo/status/1134219355363954688
Seriously, those attacking Nancy Pelosi and not that ORANGE POS 45 in our White House, should tell you everything you need to know about who they pledge allegiance to.
https://twitter.com/chessninja/status/1134176193425616896
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1134097908092063745
https://twitter.com/chessninja/status/1134162988628402176
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1134086345805172742
😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1134327937585557510
Congratulations to these amazing young people 👏👏👏👏
https://twitter.com/ScrippsBee/status/1134361940208365568
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https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1134311856934309889
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
TGIF, EVERYONE!