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Daily Update | November 6, 2018

Abigail DeHart  //  11/6/18  //  Daily Update

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a plan for the deployment of federal personnel to polling sites on Election Day. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to step into the legal fights over its decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DOJ official, John Gore, who drafted the controversial request for citizenship question on 2020 Census testified that adding the question is "not necessary" for enforcing the Voting Rights Act.

 

IMMIGRATION

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to step into the legal fights over its decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program (The Hill).

 

DEMOCRACY

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a plan for the deployment of federal personnel to polling sites on Election Day.

  • The DOJ memo can be found here.
  • Civil rights groups condemn the monitoring plan.


CIVIL RIGHTS 

DOJ official, John Gore, who drafted the controversial request for citizenship question on 2020 Census testified that adding the question is "not necessary" for enforcing the Voting Rights Act (Election Law Blog; LATimes).

President Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship defy history and lessons that other countries “have taught us time and again,” writes Laura Bingham at Just Security.

  • Analysis of who gets to decide the birthright citizenship is available here.

 

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