Supreme Court Leaves Citizenship Question Blocked; Allows Partisan Gerrymandering

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🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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President Trump says he is looking into delaying the 2020 census, hours after the Supreme Court decided to keep a question about citizenship off the form to be used for the head count. Plus, the Supreme Court ruled that partisan redistricting is a political question — not reviewable by federal courts. This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political editor Domenico Montanaro, political reporter Miles Parks, and reporter Hansi Lo Wang. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Victoria, and I'm in a hotel room in Louisville after watching the first night of the Democratic debates.
0:06.0	My husband of two weeks and I just spent the last two hours on the phone so we could watch them together while I'm away for work.
0:12.0	This podcast was recorded at 1.36pm on Thursday the 27th of June.
0:19.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be married to someone awesome enough to send me Scott Deter tweets about John Hickenlooper.
0:26.0	Enjoy the show.
0:30.0	That is pretty awesome.
0:32.0	That was super sweet, and also makes me think that this is our second podcast of the day.
0:37.0	Go back and listen to the old one about the debates.
0:39.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.
0:43.0	And I'm Dominican Montenora political editor.
0:45.0	And we've got a special guest today in PR's Hanselow Wong. Hey, Hansi.
0:49.0	Hey, Tam.
0:50.0	And if you are here, that means that we are talking about the census.
0:54.0	That's right. Here we go.
0:56.0	So it was the last decision day of this term for the US Supreme Court.
1:00.0	And today the high court handed down two major decisions that we've been waiting for and following.
1:05.0	One about the census and one about partisan gerrymandering.
1:09.0	Dominico, you are the NPR editor who edits all of our Supreme Court coverage.
1:15.0	What did the court decide today as relates to the census?
1:19.0	Well, the court essentially blocked the citizenship question from coming up in 2020,
1:24.0	which the Trump administration wanted to do.
1:27.0	And they did this.
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