Census Bureau said that it would discontinue efforts to create citizenship tabulations at the city-block level
Among his first acts as president, Biden s order revoked two Trump directives related to the 2020 census
The first attempted to discern the citizenship status of every U.S. resident through administrative records
The second sought to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used for apportioning congressional seats among the states
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Originally published on January 22, 2021 6:03 pm
The U.S. Census Bureau has stopped working on a Trump administration-initiated project to produce citizenship data that could have politically benefited Republicans when voting districts are redrawn.
Citing President Biden s executive order that revoked President Donald Trump s directive for federal agencies to share their citizenship records, the bureau updated its website Friday with a statement that says its work on anonymized data about the U.S. citizenship status of every adult living in the country has been suspended indefinitely.
This change means that states will likely not get access to the citizenship data needed to carry out a radically different way of remaking political maps that determine the areas lawmakers represent. A GOP strategist had concluded that using block-level citizen voting age population, or CVAP, data for redistricting would be advantageou
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Legal fights over the use of census data brought protesters to the Supreme Court in 2019. Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images
The U.S. Census Bureau has stopped working on a Trump administration-initiated project to produce citizenship data that could have politically benefited Republicans when voting districts are redrawn.
Citing President Biden s executive order that revoked President Donald Trump s directive for federal agencies to share their citizenship records, the bureau updated its website Friday with a statement that says its work on anonymized data about the U.S. citizenship status of every adult living in the country has been suspended indefinitely.
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