Political Quotes

“The Census can be used to either marginalize or to empower communities. This President decided on the path of marginalization. They did that by coming up with an idea to silence the voices of immigrant communities throughout the country by adding a citizenship question that they deemed necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act. For 53 years, no Department of Justice had a problem enforcing the Voting Rights Act without Census block data on citizenship. All of a sudden, 2017 comes around, and you know what? We have a problem. This is the excuse that they had. This is the reason they had to add this question to the Census. It is just completely false, even to the extent that we saw that they said that the Department of Justice was the one that asked for it. Then, we find out later that they had to shop around to the Department of Homeland Security and other Departments in order to get somebody to try to ask the Census Bureau to add the question. Then, they went back to Jeff Sessions, who carried out their request. We are investigating because everything that they have said, the Department of Commerce and Wilbur Ross, has been a complete lie. If you don't believe me, the recent Supreme Court decision said, ``Unlike a typical case in which an agency may have both stated and unstated reasons for a decision . . . the sole stated reason seems to have been contrived.'' What does ``contrived'' mean? It means forced, artificial, manufactured, false.…”