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MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS’ RULE 60(B)(2) MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM FINAL JUDGMENT & REQUEST FOR INDICATIVE RULING UNDER RULE 62.1(A)
This motion seeks relief under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(2) based on newly discovered evidence of discriminatory animus and unconstitutional intent by Secretary Ross and the political appointees and operatives involved in adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
Guest host, Anisha Singh, interviews John C. Yang and Lakshmi Sridaran about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which celebrates the culture, traditions, and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
More than 22 million Asian Americans and nearly 1.6 million Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders live in the U.S. And 92 percent of Asian Americans are immigrants or the children of immigrants and nearly two-thirds of all Asian Americans today are foreign-born.
NPR: Appeal To Census Lawsuit Ruling Adds Uncertainty To Citizenship Question's Fate
The plaintiffs are challenging Hazel's conclusion that there was not enough evidence showing that the decision to add the question by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, was motivated by bias against immigrant communities of color, including Latinos and Latinas, and intended to depress census participation among these groups.
Civil Rights Organizations Contest Finding of Non-Discrimination in Maryland Census Ruling
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Washington, D.C. – Civil rights groups filed a notice of cross-appeal today in their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The filing follows an appeal by the Trump administration of the ruling against the citizenship question.
Maryland Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration’s Addition of A Census Citizenship Question
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Washington, D.C. – A federal court in Maryland today ruled the Trump administration cannot add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census because it violates the Enumeration Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Federal Judge Hazel Issues Final Ruling In Favor of Advancing Justice | AAJC and MALDEF. No citizenship question on the 2020 Census. In his ruling, Judge Hazel noted:
“In his cursory wave-of-the-hand treatment of the obligation to pretest survey materials, the Secretary (Ross) failed to identify any plausible rationale for deviating from the Bureau’s rigorous pretesting standards.”
One year ahead of Census Day 2020, Asian Americans Advancing Justice launches awareness campaign and website
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Washington, D.C. – Today Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, launched a Get Out the Count website, and a suite of census resources as part of a campaign to improve participation in the decennial census by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
In the context of our census work, data disaggregation refers to the collection and reporting of data by detailed Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander subgroups. By producing disaggregated data for detailed groups, you can always combine the data to produce summarized data on the entire group. However, the reverse is not true. You cannot get detailed data from aggregated data. And without accurate data by detailed race group, some of the most disadvantaged in our communities are rendered invisible to policy makers, leaving their critical needs unmet.
Should the 2020 U.S. Census ask about citizenship? Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross decided that it should, and his decision triggered an explosion of legal challenges.
Last week, a federal judge in New York ruled that the question may not be asked. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote, “Secretary Ross’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census—even if it did not violate the Constitution itself—was unlawful for a multitude of independent reasons and must be set aside.”