DOJ Official Behind Failed Census Citizenship Question To Leave Department
Source: NPR
John Gore, the main Justice Department official behind the Trump administration's failed push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, is set to leave the department Friday.
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Gore, who has been serving as the principal deputy assistant attorney general for the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, is among the administration officials currently facing allegations of providing false testimony and concealing evidence as part of the lawsuits over the citizenship question. In a recent court filing, Gore denied the claims made by advocacy groups represented by the ACLU, New York Civil Liberties Union and the Arnold & Porter.
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A partner at the law firm Jones Day before he joined the administration in 2017, Gore previously led the Civil Rights Division as its acting head. He ghostwrote the Justice Department letter to the Census Bureau that formally requested a citizenship question, which three federal courts have permanently blocked from 2020 census forms.
That letter, which was sent to the bureau in December 2017, claimed the administration wanted to add the question to the census in order to better protect the voting rights of racial minorities a justification that a majority of the Supreme Court found to appear "contrived" and three lower courts have dismissed as a sham.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/749573662/doj-official-behind-failed-census-citizenship-question-to-leave-department
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Jones Day should be publicly shamed from taking this unethical vote-rigger back.
Farmer-Rick
(10,197 posts)They allowed the partial birth abortion ban (even though there is no scientific evidence that the 3 to 8 inch unborn is a being) which did away with 90% of abortions in the 2nd trimester even if, without the abortion, it would kill the mother. And there is no such thing as a partial birth abortion. It is a totally made up name used by idiot RepubliCONS.
And they quote the 1886 reporter's note that totally got the court's ruling wrong as justification for citizen's united.
But, I guess lying and making up crap is fine when it comes to keeping women under religious restrictions and turning the filthy rich's businesses into people. But not so much when it comes to perverting the Census.
Hmmm, do the Supremes have limits on their partisan rulings?