Twelve days after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with a plan to change how census numbers are used to determine congressional representation, the Census Bureau confirmed that it would not meet a key year-end deadline to provide state-by-state population counts to...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The stakes are high when a major civic exercise involves a large population, new technology that has not been thoroughly tested and an entire country waiting on the results.Source: Shift to digital census raises fear of Iowa-like breakdown...
The House panel is seeking subpoenaed documents regarding the administration’s failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. WASHINGTON — The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Tuesday sued William P. Barr, the attorney general, and Wilbur L. Ross Jr.Source: House Committee...
Officials in Montana are warning residents for the second time this year about surveys sent by the Republican National Committee that mimic the look of federal census forms, with the goal of soliciting money for President Trump’s reelection campaign.Source: “RNC solicited money for Trump’s reelection...
President Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to provide citizenship information to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had not been written when the president and Attorney General William Barr spoke in the Rose Garden yesterday.Source: The facts on Trump's order on counting citizens — and what...
President Trump sowed new confusion on Wednesday over his administration’s decision to abandon its fight to add a citizenship question to next year’s census.Source: Trump tweets new confusion into fight over census citizenship question...
Last week a divided Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s stated reason for including a question about citizenship on the 2020 census – to help the Department of Justice better enforce federal voting rights laws – was a pretext.Source: 2020 census questionnaires go to...
The Census Bureau will not include a question about citizenship in the printed questionnaire for the 2020 census, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed Tuesday.Source: Census to leave citizenship question off 2020 questionnaire...
The Supreme Court issued two opinions with direct implications for redistricting this morning, on the last day of the October 2018 Term. In a consolidated opinion for Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v.Source: TheRepLawyer Blog...
The Supreme Court, delivering a political blow to the Trump administration and a victory for California, on Thursday refused to uphold an effort to ask all households about the citizenship of their residents as part of the 2020 census. They sent the matter back to...
