In Aggressive and Somewhat Bizarre Opinion, Divided 10th Circuit Panel Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Colorado Constitutional Amendment Making It Harder to Qualify Initiatives for Ballot

On a 2-1 vote, a 10th Circuit panel has rejected a constitutional challenge to a provision of the Colorado Constitution requiring those who gather signatures for ballot measures to collect signatures from at least two percent of registered voters… Continue reading

If Trump’s Executive Order Ends Up Creating Better Citizenship Data, Could It Be Used by States to Draw CONGRESSIONAL Districts with Equal Numbers of Voter Eligible Persons (and Not Total Population)? Would It Allow for Use in State and Local Districts?

In earlier posts, and in a Slate piece, I explained that both the original reason for trying to include the citizenship question on the census and Trump’s executive order issued yesterday was to allow states to try to… Continue reading

What Trump is Likely Up to with the Census Case Given the ABC News Report They are Abandoning an Effort to Include the Question: Still An Effort to Diminish Hispanic (and Democratic) Voting Strength

See my earlier post:  All’s Well That Ends Well, or All’s Well That Evenwel? How the Commerce Department May Still Help States to Draw Districts with Equal Numbers of Voter Eligible Persons to Minimize Hispanic (and Democratic) Voting Strength.

All’s Well That Ends Well, or All’s Well That Evenwel? How the Commerce Department May Still Help States to Draw Districts with Equal Numbers of Voter Eligible Persons to Minimize Hispanic (and Democratic) Voting Strength

It is undeniably good news that the Trump Administration decided to abandon the citizenship question in the face of evidence that it would depress turnout especially among those with noncitizens in a household and in light of the Supreme… Continue reading

DOJ Responds to Census Plaintiffs on Hofeller, Claiming There Were No False Statements in DOJ Testimony and No Evidence Hofeller Material Was Used in DOJ Position on Citizenship Question on Census

Here is the letter, painting a starkly different picture of both the facts and legal relevance of the Hofeller materials. This will no doubt have to be hashed out by the district court, while the Supreme Court drafts its opinion… Continue reading