Former Attorney General Eric Holder said the Supreme Court can’t allow President Donald Trump to weaponize the Census.
Holder made his comments in a column posted Thursday by The Washington Post.
“Following oral arguments earlier this week, I’m deeply concerned that the Supreme Court appears willing to allow the Trump administration to weaponize the 2020 Census to determine where political and economic power in the United States should reside,” he said.
“Allowing the administration to demand citizenship information from every household as part of the decennial census for the first time in more than half a century would dramatically depress the count in areas with significant Latino and immigrant populations and would reposition political representation toward areas more likely to elect Republicans.”
He noted a Census Bureau’s analysis found the citizenship question could result in 6.5 million people not participating in the count.
Holder cited “the climate of fear created by the president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and inhumane immigration policies.”
“If there are institutionalists on the court concerned with the perception of their important body, it is time for them to act like it,” he said.
“Otherwise, we are on the verge of a profound, ill-advised reshaping of our democracy that would allow a minority party to exert majority control for the next decade and beyond and would risk the reputation of one of our most sacred institutions.”
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