{"id":8303,"date":"2019-05-30T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/new-evidence-from-common-cause-partisan-gerrymandering-case-reveals-plot-to-add-citizenship-question-to-2020-census-for-republican-and-white-redistricting-advantage\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:40:49","slug":"new-evidence-from-common-cause-partisan-gerrymandering-case-reveals-plot-to-add-citizenship-question-to-2020-census-for-republican-and-white-redistricting-advantage","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ko\/press\/new-evidence-from-common-cause-partisan-gerrymandering-case-reveals-plot-to-add-citizenship-question-to-2020-census-for-republican-and-white-redistricting-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence from Common Cause Partisan Gerrymandering Case Reveals\u00a0Plot to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census for Republican and White Redistricting Advantage\u00a0\u00a0"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8303","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Previously undisclosed documents obtained by Common Cause in its North Carolina partisan gerrymandering lawsuit were filed today in the federal action challenging the addition a citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census. The documents, which were filed by the private plaintiffs in Department of Commerce v. State of New York, reveal for the first time the secret role played by the longtime Republican redistricting expert, the late Dr. Thomas\u00a0Hofeller, in orchestrating the addition of the citizenship question and the Justice Department\u2019s Voting Rights Act rationale for it. The documents further show that Dr.\u00a0Hofeller\u00a0concluded in a 2015 study that the citizenship question would significantly harm the political power of Latino communities and be \u201cadvantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}","{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8287}"],"related_issues":[103,138,149,169,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Previously undisclosed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-30-Letter-Motion-dckt-587_1.pdf\">\uc11c\ub958<\/a> obtained by Common Cause in its North Carolina partisan gerrymandering lawsuit were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-30-Letter-Motion-dckt-587_0.pdf\">filed today<\/a> in the federal action challenging the addition a citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census. The documents, which were filed by the private plaintiffs in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Department of Commerce v. State of New York<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, reveal for the first time the secret role played by the longtime Republican redistricting expert, the late Dr. Thomas\u00a0Hofeller, in orchestrating the addition of the citizenship question and the Justice Department\u2019s Voting Rights Act rationale for it. The documents further show that Dr.\u00a0Hofeller\u00a0concluded in a 2015 study that the citizenship question would significantly harm the political power of Latino communities and be \u201cadvantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">In his 2015 study, Dr.\u00a0Hofeller\u00a0concluded that adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census was essential to using only citizens of voting age in redistricting, in lieu of the traditional practice of using total population. He further found that adding the citizenship question, by facilitating the use of only citizens of voting age in redistricting, would cause heavily Latino legislative districts to lose population and allow Republican mapmakers to pack more Democratic voters into those districts.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">The documents filed today further show that, in 2017, Dr.\u00a0Hofeller\u00a0helped ghostwrite a letter from the Department of Justice to the Department of Commerce requesting the addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 Census, supposedly to support the Justice Department\u2019s enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">These documents were obtained by Common Cause from Dr.\u00a0Hofeller\u2019s\u00a0daughter through the discovery process in Common Cause\u2019s anti-gerrymandering lawsuit,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fredistricting-litigation%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Ckfeng%40commoncause.org%7C7ac1288ee00b4388201208d6e4844ac5%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C0%7C636947654177579282&amp;sdata=rqk4MHIAM8bUPJox2vByaUn6d16u1qabzqiEpMaILNI%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Common Cause v. Lewis<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">which goes to trial in\u00a0North\u00a0Carolina state court in July<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Common Cause\uc758 \ud68c\uc7a5\uc778 Karen Hobert Flynn\uc758 \uc131\uba85:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">&quot;\uadf8\ub9cc\ud07c\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\uc99d\uac70<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\ub4dc\ub7ec\ub0b4\ub2e4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\uc5d0\uc2a4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that the plan to add the citizenship question was hatched by the Republicans\u2019 chief redistricting mastermind to create an electoral advantage for Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0This contradicts testimony by Administration officials that they wanted to add the question to benefit Latino voters, when in fact the opposite was true.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Statement from Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Whether it\u2019s rigging the census for partisan gain or manipulating voting maps for the same, that\u2019s wrong and destructive to our democracy.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\uc5d0\uc11c \uc9c4\uc220\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\uce74\ud0c0\uc774<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Feng, national redistricting director of Common Cause<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This new evidence shows there was plan to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">undermine the integrity of our Census, manipulate redistricting and rig the elections for partisan advantage.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\ud638\ud3a0\ub7ec<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0knew that adding the citizenship question to the census would erase millions of Latinos and other Americans from redistricting. Now that the plan has been revealed, it\u2019s important for all of us \u2013 the courts, leaders, and the people \u2013 to stand up for a democracy that includes every American voice.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">To read the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\ud638\ud3a0\ub7ec<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> filing and documents, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-30-Letter-Motion-dckt-587_0.pdf\">\uc5ec\uae30<\/a> \uadf8\ub9ac\uace0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-30-Letter-Motion-dckt-587_1.pdf\">\uc5ec\uae30<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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