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@hansilowang
Sep 14, 2018 • 12 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
CENSUS 🤓ALERT: I’m inside Manhattan federal courthouse for #2020census citizenship question lawsuit hearing starting at 2 p.m. ET.

STAND BY FOR THREAD👇
2. While we wait, let me catch you up on where #2020census citizenship question lawsuits currently stand👇

npr.org/2018/09/12/646…
3. There are a total of 6 lawsuits around the country over #2020census citizenship question lawsuit.

Potential trial start dates:

- Jan. 7: 2 California cases in San Francisco

- Jan. 22: 1 of 2 Maryland cases in Greenbelt, Md.

(Other Maryland case is still in early stages.)
4. No timeline for potential trial in 2 NY cases has been set yet - though U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman has floated Halloween (Oct. 31) as a possible start date.

Question is whether these cases will actually go to trial or directly to judge for summary judgement.
5. 2020 may seem far away, but clock is ticking towards start of #2020census in Jan. 2020 (in rural Alaska!).

We’re heading into final months of preparations by @uscensusbureau staff, who are still living in limbo over whether or not citizenship Q @SecretaryRoss added will stay.
6. The @uscensusbureau’s Acting Director @jarmin_ron told me in July the longer this legal battle over citizenship question lasts, the higher the risk of not getting an accurate head count for #2020census👇

npr.org/2018/07/11/627…
@uscensusbureau @jarmin_ron 7. There's been a lot of back & forth bet. @TheJusticeDept & plaintiffs' attorneys @NewYorkStateAG, @ACLU, @NYCLU & @arnoldporter over the release of docs re: citizenship question.

Here's summary of what we've learned so far from already-out docs

npr.org/2018/07/30/632…
@uscensusbureau @jarmin_ron @TheJusticeDept @NewYorkStateAG @ACLU @NYCLU @arnoldporter 8. Courtroom is quiet, waiting for hearing to start...
@uscensusbureau @jarmin_ron @TheJusticeDept @NewYorkStateAG @ACLU @NYCLU @arnoldporter 9. "All rise"...
@uscensusbureau @jarmin_ron @TheJusticeDept @NewYorkStateAG @ACLU @NYCLU @arnoldporter 10. @TheJusticeDept is planning to release more internal documents on citizenship question to plaintiffs, @arnoldporter attorney John Freedman reports.
@uscensusbureau @jarmin_ron @TheJusticeDept @NewYorkStateAG @ACLU @NYCLU @arnoldporter 11. U.S. District Judge Jess Furman asks if state of Alabama's lawsuit against @uscensusbureau policy of including unauthorized immigrants in census numbers for reapportionment is relevant to citizenship question lawsuits.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) Profile picture
Oct 5, 2018
NEW: The Trump administration must release more internal documents for #2020census citizenship question lawsuits that @TheJusticeDept attorneys had withheld because of deliberative process privilege, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman orders.👇
2. From Judge Furman’s opinion: These documents about #2020census citizenship Q “are not protected by the deliberative process privilege because they merely ‘reflect deliberations about what “message” should be delivered to the public about an already-decided policy decision.’ “
3. And don’t forget it👇

npr.org/2018/09/29/652…
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Sep 29, 2018
NEW: Trump administration is preparing to ask Supreme Court to block #2020census citizenship question lawsuit deposition of @TheJusticeDept official John Gore

AND

judge on 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked deposition of @SecretaryRoss for lawsuits 👇
@TheJusticeDept @SecretaryRoss 2. Here's the order by U.S. Circuit Judge Peter Hall temporarily blocking @SecretaryRoss' deposition scheduled for Oct. 11 👇
@TheJusticeDept @SecretaryRoss 3. This move by @TheJusticeDept attorneys comes after a three-judge panel on 2nd Circuit did this on Tuesday 👇

npr.org/2018/09/25/651…
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Sep 18, 2018
Over past 3+ months, I've read 12,000+ pages of internal docs the Trump admin has released for #2020census citizenship question lawsuits. I've been reporting on how @SecretaryRoss' explanation of how this Q ended up on census has suffered blow after blow w each document dump 👇
@SecretaryRoss 2. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross oversees the census. He's testified in Congress that Justice Department initiated citizenship Q request in Dec 2017 & he was "responding solely" to that. In March, he announced he approved adding question to forms every US household has to answer
@SecretaryRoss 3. After the announcement, I was having trouble keeping up w all the lawsuits that started popping up. Right now, more than 2 dozen states/cities, plus other groups, are suing the Trump admin in 6 lawsuits around the country. These lawsuits required the release of internal docs.
Read 12 tweets
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Sep 17, 2018
CONFIRMED: @TheJusticeDept initially "did not want to raise" citizenship Q request for #2020census when approached by @CommerceGov beginning in May 2017 "given the difficulties Justice was encountering in the press at the time (the whole Comey matter)" 👇

apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
@TheJusticeDept @CommerceGov 2. You may have seen this newly unredacted email tweeted out earlier:





U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ordered it be released by Trump administration today.
@TheJusticeDept @CommerceGov 3. Unredacted version of memo was filed w Manhattan fed court by plaintiffs' attys @NewYorkStateAG office, @ACLU, @NYCLU, @arnoldporter. They are urging Judge Furman to order deposition of @SecretaryRoss, whose conduct has been - in the attys' words - "astonishing, unprecedented"
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Sep 14, 2018
12. @TheJusticeDept attorneys say no - and Trump administration's still working on response to Alabama @AGSteveMarshall & @RepMoBrooks' complaint.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks 13. Judge Furman says the release of 17 internal documents about citizenship question is still in dispute.
@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks 14. Judge Furman is ordering the release of 3 of the 17 documents in question -- Bates No. 2458, 3984, 9834 -- by Monday, Sept. 17.
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Aug 6, 2018
The U.S. gov't is going to ask you some personal questions in 2020.

Tuesday is your last chance to submit feedback on those questions here: regulations.gov/docket?D=USBC-….

But before you do, here's a thread on the major changes with the #2020census Qs 👇

npr.org/2018/03/29/598…
2. You've probably been hearing a lot about the new citizenship question. Here's how it's worded and some background on why it's sparked six lawsuits 👇 apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
3. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees #2020census, approved adding citizenship Q. Ross has said Justice Department "initiated" request for Q. But internal emails & memos make clear Ross pushed his staff to add Q months before DOJ's request 👇
npr.org/2018/07/30/632…
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