The Trump administration concealed evidence that its proposal to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 U. S. census was intended to help Republicans draw favorable electoral maps, according to immigrant advocacy groups that sued the administration over the question last year.
The Trump administration concealed evidence that its proposal to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 U. S. census was intended to help Republicans draw favorable electoral maps, according to immigrant advocacy groups that sued the administration over the question last year.
In a filing in Manhattan federal court on Thursday, the groups said that the administration hid the fact during the course of the lawsuit that went to trial last year that Thomas Hofeller, a longtime Republican specialist on drawing electoral districts, played a “significant role” in planning the citizenship question.
The conservative-majority Supreme Court is due to issue a final ruling by the end of June on whether the question can be added in time for next year’s census. The challengers notified the high court about the new documents in a letter filed at the court on Thursday afternoon.
