RE: the Census Question.
Pay attention to the motivations of this woman "Stephanie Hofeller".
Who "found" thumbdrives of her late father Thomas Hofeller with whom she had become estranged. And were ideologically opposed. She connects with "Common Cause"….
Hofeller told Phillips she was estranged from her father and that she disagreed with his work. She mentioned in passing that she was interested in resolving matters related to her family estate, and that she might have some things Common Cause would be interested in.
“I honestly didn’t think it would go anywhere,” Phillips said.
Phillips passed Hofeller on to Jane Pinsky, a Common Cause lawyer. They spoke on the phone a few times, and Hofeller remarked on how much progress the group had made in developing its assertions about the legality of her father’s maps. Around the same time, Hofeller read a news article about a memorial service for her father. David Daley, a reporter who wrote a book explaining GOP efforts to gerrymander, was quoted at the end of the story saying, “It wouldn’t surprise me at all if on a hard drive somewhere in Raleigh Tom Hofeller has another set of gifts for legislators.”
Hofeller mentioned the story to Pinsky, and casually mentioned that she did in fact have hard drives of her father’s work.
Hofeller didn’t think the hard drives would have much practical use to Common Cause because North Carolina’s electoral districts had already been redrawn since her father drew them in 2011. And even if they were relevant, she thought, the ongoing cases were on appeal, where new evidence couldn’t be admitted.
But Pinsky told her that a new case had been filed in November. Common Cause was challenging the state’s legislative districts as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders under the North Carolina Constitution. The case was still open to new evidence. Pinsky put Hofeller in touch with two lawyers working on the case, and she said she would be willing to give them what she’d discovered in her parents’ apartment. Eventually, they would send her a formal subpoena for the documents.
And the case has been kicked back by SCOTUS today.
Its an interesting tale of how this census case is going to continue going on.
Sounds flawed to me - I'm not a lawyer but how hard would it be for evidence to be manufactured?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thomas-hofeller-gerrymandering-documents_n_5cfa93b0e4b0aab91c056d7c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004