With the release of a mountain of emails and documents in discovery over the citizenship question on the census, expect to see a lot more like this:
🚨 NEW: @uscensusbureau analysis of adding citizenship question, in memo to Sec. Ross:
"very costly, harms the quality of the census count, and would use substantially less accurate citizenship status data than are available from administrative sources."https://t.co/exkZ3GcJQQ pic.twitter.com/BRKwAoRkiC
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) July 24, 2018
Ross claimed the citizenship question was added to the #Census due to a DOJ request in December of 2017.
but here's Ross in MAY of 2017:
"I am mystified why nothing have been done in response to my months old request that we include the citizenship question. Why not?" pic.twitter.com/pTTt58Hbl0
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) July 24, 2018
Census official complains internally that no one at @AEI would comment favorably on including citizenship question on census. pic.twitter.com/5422V1atJE
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) July 24, 2018