Thomas Hefler News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Dr. thomas hefler was a republican redistricting expert. wrote a study in 2015 that said this redistricting would be advantageous to republicans and non-hispanics to use citizen voting age, as you bring up. many people didn't see these documents until he died. his daughter discovered them on thumb drives. they came to the attention of the aclu, elizabeth, which brought that issue to the high court, but until today, and we don't even know if the justices will do it today, the aclu has not responded to that issue and whether they'll consider that in this. hold that thought, jessica schneider, my...

Legal challenge which may come from republicans and conservatives in some of these states and important to note how these two cases intersect because in the census case, the evidence from thomas, the deceased republican strategist files is that they want republicans, republicans want to juice the citiz use the citizenship data to change the way districts are drawn from all people, eligible south citizens of voting age, enormously compound the effect of moving diversification away to areas more prepont rattly white and republican. the census case could be, if they decide this census question, y...

The citizenship question on the census. doj sought census block level citizenship data for use in voting rights act enforcement. >> so he said it's for the voting rights act enforcement but the aclu says that's contradicted by files on hard drives left behind by thomas hefler a republican redistricting strategist who died last year. those files show that he wrote a 2015 study concluding that adding a citizenship question would allow republicans to create more extremely gerrymandered congressional map. he urged the trump team to tack that question on to the census. the aclu is is asking the jud...