GOP Lawmakers Flirt With Drastic Change To How U.S. House Map Is Drawn
By Tierney Sneed | June 8, 2018 1:01 pm
Multiple witnesses appeared in front of a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing Friday to testify in favor or against the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census — a Trump administration move that is roiling the civil rights community and prompting numerous lawsuits.
But the Republican lawmakers who showed up to participate in the hearing seemed most interested in speaking to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who is bringing a lawsuit seeking to alter how the U.S. congressional map is drawn to diminish the political power of immigrant-friendly states.
His lawsuit is parallel to the push for a census citizenship question, but if successful, could have just as drastic of an effect, if not more. Whereas the Trump administration has claimed it needs census citizenship data for Voting Rights Act enforcement (a claim viewed skeptically by voting rights activists), the Alabama lawsuit explicitly seeks to exclude undocumented immigrants from how U.S. congressional seats are apportioned.
To do so, it would require the Census Bureau adding another question seeking to know immigrants’ legal status, beyond the citizenship question, which civil right rights groups fear will chill immigrant participation on the survey.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/republicans-congressional-apportionment-census-hearing
When they have acts of treason being perpetuated by a criminal organization sitting in the white house............this Goodlatte asshole is worried about how to gerrymander elections through the census and a clear violation of the Constitution...................