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    Cory Booker Wants To Block The Use Of Census Citizenship Data To Draw Voting Districts

    by Hansi Lo Wang Jul 10, 2019 3 minutes
    Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) speaks at an event in February in North Las Vegas, Nev., while campaigning for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.

    Sen. Cory Booker is proposing a preemptive strike against using a citizenship question on the 2020 census in a way that, he says, could give Republicans a political advantage.

    The Democratic presidential hopeful from New Jersey is introducing a Senate bill on Wednesday that would ban the U.S. Census Bureau from including citizenship information among the data the bureau is required to provide to redistricting after a national head count.

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