
New documents show census officials concerned about political interference from Trump's Commerce Department
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Newly released documents appear to show top career officials at the Census Bureau had drafted a memo of concerns during the Trump administration's attempts to exert political pressure on the bureau during the 2020 population count.
Other records show career officials alarmed by pressure from political appointees to alter processes for tallying undocumented immigrants and citizenship data that would likely result in GOP gains in the US House of Representatives. The records are among hundreds of documents that the liberal-leaning Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's law school obtained in a lawsuit filed in September 2020.
The New York Times was the first to report on the Census Bureau records.
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