AMERICAN POLITICS - 2020 Census

"What’s at stake with political and pandemic challenges for 2020 census" PBS NewsHour 7/22/2020

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SUMMARY:  On Tuesday, President Trump signed a memo aiming to bar undocumented immigrants from being included in the census count that determines how many members of Congress are allocated to each state.  The census is conducted once in a decade, but it shapes funding, policy and power for years.  Lisa Desjardins reports and talks to Hansi Lo Wang of NPR about what this and the pandemic mean for the census.

Editor's note:  The guest in this segment misstated that an enslaved person in the U.S. was counted as three-fourths of a person under the Constitution.  Enslaved Black Americans were counted as three-fifths of a person.

OPINION - Shields and Brooks 11/2/2018

"Shields and Brooks on Trump’s focus on immigration, midterm closing arguments" PBS NewsHour 11/2/2018

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SUMMARY:  Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the uptick of extremism during this election season, as well as the role of immigration and racial politics in the 2018 midterm elections.

SUPREME COURT - Microsoft Emails

"Can the U.S. force Microsoft to give up emails stored abroad?  Supreme Court weighs privacy vs. security" PBS NewsHour 2/27/2018

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SUMMARY:  A case involving Microsoft and overseas data puts a familiar tech issue before the Supreme Court, the balancing act between the interests of law enforcement and personal privacy.  Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal joins Judy Woodruff to break down that case, as well as the justices’ ruling on the detainment of undocumented immigrants.