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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2018
Oregon fights Trump on census
Lawsuit over
citizenship
question
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Oregon Attorney General
Ellen Rosenblum, 17 other
state attorneys general and
six cities filed suit Tuesday to
block a citizenship question
on the 2020 Census.
The state attorneys general
are concerned the question
will discourage immigrants
from participating.
Rosenblum joined New
York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman in New York
City to announce the lawsuit,
which was filed in U.S. Dis-
trict Court for the Southern
District of New York.
“The census is part of the
bedrock of our democracy.
The U.S. Constitution guar-
antees an accurate census be
taken every 10 years. Adding
a citizenship question to the
census form has a deliberate
and intended chilling effect
on participation,” Rosenblum
said. “As state attorneys gen-
eral we are committed to mak-
ing sure every voice is heard,
and we believe that every per-
son in America counts.”
Accuracy in the census
is important for providing
appropriate federal funding to
states, apportioning congres-
sional seats and Electoral Col-
lege votes and drawing state
and local voting districts.
Even a 1 percent under-
count on the 2010 Cen-
sus would have dramatically
reduced Oregon’s federal
Medicaid funding by $23 mil-
lion, said Kristina Edmunson,
a spokeswoman in Rosen-
blum’s office.
Under the Constitution,
the U.S. Census Bureau has
an obligation to determine
“the whole number of persons
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Tuesday that Oregon has joined
17 other states, six cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors to block the new question
about citizenship added to the 2020 Census by the Trump administration.
in each state.” Yet demanding
citizenship information in the
census is expected to reduce
participation among immi-
grants and could cause a pop-
ulation undercount, which
would
disproportionately
harm states with large immi-
grant communities, according
to a news release from Rosen-
blum’s office.
The lawsuit against the
Trump administration is based
on the enumeration clause of
the U.S. Constitution and the
Administrative
Procedure
Act, which permits courts to
set aside unlawful or arbi-
trary and capricious agency
decisions. The attorneys gen-
eral argue that the citizen-
ship question will impede an
actual count required by the
Constitution.
In addition to New York
and Oregon, other plaintiffs
include the attorneys general
of Connecticut, Delaware,
Illinois, Iowa, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota,
New Jersey, New Mexico,
North Carolina, Pennsylva-
nia, Rhode Island, Virginia,
Vermont, Washington state,
and the District of Columbia.
The cities of Chicago, Phil-
adelphia, Providence, San
Francisco, Seattle and New
York City and the bipartisan
U.S. Conference of Mayors
also has joined the suit.
Questions about citizen-
ship have been part of the
decennial census in the past,
according to the Census
Bureau.
From 1970 to 2000 it was
part of a “long form” sent to
1-in-6 households. The long
form was eliminated in the
2010 Census.
In 2005 the Census Bureau
started the American Commu-
nity Survey, an annual sur-
vey sent to about 3.5 million
households each year.
The survey includes ques-
tions about the respondent’s
citizenship, according to the
Census Bureau. But unlike
the actual census, the survey
is not used to apportion rep-
resentation, Electoral College
votes or to determine legisla-
tive districts.
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that history, in fact, may have
been the driving factor in the
state’s decision to impose the
fees.
Both organizers and those
involved with the park’s
upkeep speculated that the
state was concerned about
the use of Confederate flags,
which state officials have
not confirmed or denied.
Last summer, a deadly white
nationalist rally in Charlottes-
ville, Virginia, and a Confeder-
ate flag and rebel decals linked
to an award-winning float at
the Astoria Regatta prompted
national and local debates.
Both incidents took place on
‘Nobody here condones what
happened in the past. We also
need to learn from our past and
our history — and if you don’t,
you’re doomed to repeat it.’
John Lewis
county fair’s maintenance supervisor
the same day, just three weeks
before the re-enactment.
The re-enactors were
taunted and threatened on
Facebook, prompting Warren-
ton police to boost patrols in
the area to ensure safety.
“Nobody here condones
what happened in the past,”
Lewis said. “We also need to
learn from our past and our
history — and if you don’t,
you’re doomed to repeat it.”
Re-enactors typically stage
battles, speeches and other
demonstrations of battle-
field life over the three-day
weekend. Participants often
pay tens of thousands of dol-
lars toward the hobby and
travel lengthy distances to the
events.
The fairgrounds will offer
less room on the battlefield
and some structures of a dif-
ferent era, but it will still have
good sites for camping and
battles, Bishop said. He also
said it will feature adequate
parking and infrastructure.
The council has not ruled
out a return to Fort Stevens at
some point, Bishop said. For
now, the contract gives the
re-enactment a home this year,
and the fair has penciled the
event in for 2019.
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found that Knight had know-
ingly made false representa-
tions and misled Param in the
company’s failed negotiations
to assume the remaining lease
of troubled former hotel opera-
tor Brad Smithart.
As part of the takeover,
Param would deposit $580,000
in an escrow account. The Port
would receive $273,180 for
back-due rent and revenue shar-
ing, the city $115,858 for lodg-
ing taxes and the county $4,633
for property taxes. The remain-
der — $186,327 — would go to
Smithart, who also owes signif-
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