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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts) Tue Jan 15, 2019, 10:56 AM Jan 2019

BREAKING: Federal court blocks citizenship question from 2020 census

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Christina Wilkie

BREAKING: Federal court blocks citizenship question from 2020 census.

“The evidence is clear that Secretary Ross’s rationale was pretextual...the court can not sustain agency action founded on a pretextual or sham justification that conceals the true “basis” for the decision.”

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BREAKING: Federal court blocks citizenship question from 2020 census (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Jan 2019 OP

Good. dalton99a Jan 2019 #1

Great News. Dem_4_Life Jan 2019 #2

It's good for one reason FakeNoose Jan 2019 #3

This made me smile Gothmog Jan 2019 #4

dalton99a

(81,590 posts)

1. Good.

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 10:57 AM

Jan 2019

Dem_4_Life

(1,765 posts)

2. Great News.

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Tue Jan 15, 2019, 10:59 AM

Jan 2019

FakeNoose

(32,767 posts)

3. It's good for one reason

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:02 AM

Jan 2019

If the question had remained on the census, the rightwingers would have collected the data and misused it. We don't need to give them any more data to misuse, they already have enough.

Gothmog

(145,567 posts)

4. This made me smile

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:03 AM

Jan 2019

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