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People being undercounted. the census's purpose is to count every one in our country, but congressional representation, over $800 billion in funding allocations. the trump administration argued it's motivated solely by the concern of the proper enforcement of the voting rights act. wait until you see the new information that dropped last week by the daughter of a recently deceased conservative strategist named thomas hoffler. the north carolina map declared unconstitutional because it was a blatant racial gerrymandering i. turns out that he had done a study showing that counting only adult cit...

Here to explain is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and president and ceo of voter latino. help us understand what's happening here. what exactly are these new documents? >> it's all according to the aclu in a court filing they say that on the computer records left over by a long time republican consultant after he died found by a family member that they found drafts of what became ultimately the request by the commerce secretary. you're looking at a picture of this consultant, thomas hoffler. they say he actually said if the government can provide actual citizenship data it will b...

And increase republican power. so the aclu's claim is that that idea got to a consultant for the commerce secretary and to a senior justice department official who ultimately wrote this letter saying justice needs this to better carry out the voting rights act. that was all a pretext the aclu said. a judge agreed with them on that point but now what they're saying is that this letter -- draft letter from hoffler actually drove the progress and language in it and the ideas in it were actually in the letter that ultimately went to the commerce department. the justice department says this isn't t...

What was found? >> a new trove of documents found on a hard drive that critics say show this decision was politically motivated, right? it came from a man who they say played a significant role. thomas hoffler. he's since died but in 2015, he wrote a study, and in that study he said citizenship data could be advantageous to republicans and non-hispanic whites. keep in mind the administration has all along argued that this information was important to comply with the voting rights act. they always have pushed back that it was politically motivated. but now critics say this could be the first co...

Was 2015 by a fellow name thomas hoffler, a former republican objective that died in august of last year. but he suggested, hoffler, that including a census -- citizenship question in the census could affect the drawing of congressional districts. hoffler wrote "a switch -- >> according to the lawsuit, hoffler ghost wrote an application that the white house was going to put in to have the citizenship question added to the 2020 census and also help come up with a national and enforce voting rights act protections for immigrant communities. he didn't think it was going to go very far. he wrote t...