{"id":8298,"date":"2019-06-14T23:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T03:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/new-filing-gop-gerrymandering-guru-and-high-level-census-bureau-official-discussed-census-citizenship-question\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T23:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T03:59:34","slug":"new-filing-gop-gerrymandering-guru-and-high-level-census-bureau-official-discussed-census-citizenship-question","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ru\/press\/new-filing-gop-gerrymandering-guru-and-high-level-census-bureau-official-discussed-census-citizenship-question\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW FILING: GOP Gerrymandering Guru and High-Level Census Bureau Official Discussed Census Citizenship Question"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8298","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Hofeller evidence filed in Maryland lawsuit challenging census citizenship question. ","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8287}"],"related_issues":[103,138,169,2066],"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\">Evidence collected during an anti-gerrymandering lawsuit in North Carolina could play a critical role in a s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">eparate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lawsuit seeking to block a citizenship question from being added to the census.\u00a0MALDEF and Asian Americans Advancing Justice submitted new evidence from the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ru\/page\/read-the-gops-plan-to-supercharge-gerrymandering-with-a-census-citizenship-question\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Thomas Hofeller files<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to a federal court in Maryland on Friday\u00a0and will ask U.S.\u00a0District Judge George J.\u00a0Hazel to reconsider his earlier ruling\u00a0on whether the administration conspired with others to intentionally discriminate against\u00a0Latinos and noncitizens.<\/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\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0435<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">w e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">vidence includes a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2015 personal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">email from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a top U.S. Census official named\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Christa Jones to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Republican operative\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0422\u043e\u043c\u0430\u0441\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0425\u043e\u0444\u0435\u043b\u043b\u0435\u0440<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0inviting him to submit comments on citizenship during\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0430<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0research and development cycle leading up to the re-engineered 2020 Census.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Jones currently is <\/span>Chief of Staff to the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau.\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hofeller, now deceased, was the chief map-drawer for Republicans in North Carolina and author of a 2015 study recommending a citizenship question be added to the census. The study, recently introduced as bombshell evidence in a census lawsuit in the federal district court in Manhattan, indicates the citizenship question was added to rig the census and district maps to be, in\u00a0Hofeller\u2019s\u00a0words, \u201cadvantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.\u201d<\/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<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a02015 study and emails<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0were obtained by Common Cause from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0425\u043e\u0444\u0435\u043b\u043b\u0435\u0440\u0430<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\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 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438\u0432 \u041b\u044c\u044e\u0438\u0441\u0430<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0which goes to trial in\u00a0North\u00a0Carolina\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">this<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0July.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0425\u043e\u0444\u0435\u043b\u043b\u0435\u0440<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was also deposed in\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ru\/redistricting-litigation\/%d0%be%d0%b1%d1%89%d0%b0%d1%8f-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%b2-%d1%80%d1%83%d1%87%d0%be\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u0420\u0443\u0447\u043e<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0v. \u041e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u0435 \u0434\u0435\u043b\u043e<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a challenge to North Carolina\u2019s congressional maps now before the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/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\">\u00ab<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0425\u043e\u0444\u0435\u043b\u043b\u0435\u0440<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0files reveal a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Republican plot to manipulate elections by jeopardizing the accuracy of the census and rigging district maps,\u201d said\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u041a\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0439<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Feng, national redistricting director for Common Cause. \u201cWe know from depositions that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0425\u043e\u0444\u0435\u043b\u043b\u0435\u0440<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was shameless in his pursuit of partisan advantage. This new evidence reveals the connection between\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u0425\u043e\u0444\u0435\u043b\u043b\u0435\u0440\u0430<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0partisan motives and the Commerce Department\u2019s thinly veiled attempt to weaponize\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">census against Latinos and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">immigrant families<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d<\/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\">Read Friday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MD-Census-Filing.pdf\">court filing<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nRead MALDEF's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maldef.org\/2019\/06\/civil-rights-groups-seek-reconsideration-of-census-citizenship-question-discrimination-ruling\/\">\u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Read more on the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ru\/page\/read-the-gops-plan-to-supercharge-gerrymandering-with-a-census-citizenship-question\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u0425\u043e\u0444\u0435\u043b\u043b\u0435\u0440<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0\u0444\u0430\u0439\u043b\u044b<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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