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NEW: President Biden's census executive order revokes Trump's apportionment memo *and* Trump's executive order on collecting citizenship records — but it does not address Trump admin directives for the Census Bureau to produce block-level citizenship data https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-updates/2021/01/20/958376223/biden-to-end-trump-census-policy-ensuring-all-persons-living-in-u-s-are-counted
2. ICYMI, the Trump admin directed the Census Bureau to use gov't records to produce block-level citizenship data that GOP strategist Thomas Hofeller concluded "would be advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" when redrawing voting districts https://www.npr.org/2020/05/20/855062093/to-figure-out-whos-a-citizen-trump-administration-is-using-these-records
3. The executive order Biden signed today does not end that citizenship data project, but it does rescind Trump's July 2019 executive order that directed federal agencies to share records with the Census Bureau. It's not clear what will happen to the records the bureau's compiled
4. It's important to remember former President Donald Trump issued that July 2019 executive order after the courts struck down the Trump admin's push to add a citizenship question. There was a lot of hoopla about how the order was a new backup plan after not getting the question.
5. In fact, the now-former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross directed the Census Bureau to start compiling government records on citizenship in March 2018, more than a year before Trump's executive order on collecting citizenship records was issued:
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/4426785-commerce2018-03-26-2#document/p4/a2012969
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/4426785-commerce2018-03-26-2#document/p4/a2012969
6. Biden's executive order does not address that March 2018 directive by Ross.
It also doesn't address this directive Ross announced in a July 2019 regulatory filing re: producing citizen voting age population data "that states may use in redistricting":
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/6192581-2020-Census-Supporting-Statement-A-Revised-July#document/p18/a512146
It also doesn't address this directive Ross announced in a July 2019 regulatory filing re: producing citizen voting age population data "that states may use in redistricting":
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/6192581-2020-Census-Supporting-Statement-A-Revised-July#document/p18/a512146
7. So, this story isn't over yet.
If this block-level citizenship data becomes available, it could result in voting districts that don't take into account children, noncitizens and other residents who aren't eligible to vote. https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931908064/a-national-fight-over-who-is-counted-in-voting-districts-may-arise-from-missouri
If this block-level citizenship data becomes available, it could result in voting districts that don't take into account children, noncitizens and other residents who aren't eligible to vote. https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931908064/a-national-fight-over-who-is-counted-in-voting-districts-may-arise-from-missouri
