The Daily Fuckup — July 21, 2020

Edition · July 21, 2020

The Daily Fuckup — July 21, 2020

1 verified report published on July 21, 2020.

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Closing take

Trump kept trying to bend the census to his political will, and on July 21 the administration did it in a way that practically advertised the legal trouble ahead. That’s not strategy; that’s a constitutionally dubious rerun with the volume turned up.

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Trump’s New Census Memo Revives a Losing Fight Over the Count

Census power grab Confidence 5/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

The White House on July 21, 2020, unveiled a memorandum directing the Commerce Department to exclude undocumented immigrants from the population base used to apportion House seats. The move was framed as an effort to protect the integrity of the democratic process, but it immediately revived the same legal and political fight the administration had already lost when it tried to add a citizenship question to the census. Critics said the real-world effect was obvious: more chaos, more litigation, and more suspicion that Trump wanted to turn the once-a-decade count into an anti-immigrant political weapon.

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