Intrigue At The Census Bureau

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🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Another day, another drama: Last week, a federal judge ruled against the Trump administration's decision to add a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census. But if the Justice Department has any say, the fight will go on...all the way to the Supreme Court.

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0:00.0	Census land is heating up.
0:01.6	Finally!
0:03.4	Are you a citizen?
0:06.0	A question on citizenship status.
0:08.3	And the 2020 Census form.
0:10.1	You're listening to Code Switch, Census Watch 2020.
0:12.6	I'm Shireen Madi-Solmaraji.
0:14.0	And I'm Jean Demby.
0:14.9	And on this episode, we've got all the juicy drama
0:17.2	around the controversial citizenship question
0:20.1	and where that stands.
0:21.5	And like we said before in the podcast,
0:23.2	this drama because the census is a big as deal.
0:26.4	That is correct.
0:28.1	It's so much more than just counting people up every 10 years.
0:31.0	The Census has power.
0:33.6	The power to define how we see ourselves
0:36.1	and what we call ourselves.
0:37.4	Negro.
0:38.5	Milado.
0:39.4	Hindu.
0:40.2	Hispanic.
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