However, court filings released last week by the American Civil Liberties Union in their lawsuit to prevent the addition of the question revealed that the idea originated with Thomas Hofeller, a Republican redistricting specialist, who wrote in letters and memos that the question would create an electoral..…

In letter to Furman, the question was added to better with federal voting laws, the real reason was to intimidate Hispanic households... The bottom line is Trump administration does not deny that portions of its first draft of request to add citizenship question to the census were..…