“GAO again warns of risks in 2020 census”
Specifically,
“untested innovations,” IT implementation, and cybersecurity. The report is here.
All posts by Justin Levitt
“Census citizenship question is dropped, but challenges linger”
Science magazine digs in on the likelihood
that non-response follow up, administrative records, and (legally permissible) imputation
will be able to compensate for a large-scale chilled response.
And local
outreach efforts by Census officials continue to try to narrow that… Continue reading
“The Way the Census Counts Prison Populations Seriously Distorts Redistricting”
Mekela Panditharatne talks prison
gerrymandering in Slate.
“America’s Historic Fight Over Who Deserves Representation”
Michael Li, in
Slate, on the census, citizenship, and representation.
Related: the Council on
Foreign Relations gets in on the discussion too.
The long arm of Gill
Mississippi
cites Gill v. Whitford in contesting
challengers’ standing to contest the requirement that statewide
candidates win both a majority of the state and a majority of state house
districts.
And the Court’s refusal to recognize that redistricting
problems are … Continue reading
“Drawing new congressional lines won’t be easy for Democrats”
Nathan Gonzales in Roll Call counting an awful lot of chickens:
Democrats’ potential challenge in the next round of redistricting will be drawing new lines at the apex of electoral performance.
“Can a racially gerrymandered legislature amend the N.C. constitution?”
Facing South on the lawsuits
challenging the validity of amendments to the state constitution because they
were passed by a legislature elected via unlawful district lines.
“Would ending fusion voting hurt GOP and help suburban Dems?”
An interesting
commentary on the debate over fusion voting in New York.
“Rensselaer County Board of Elections to give ICE voter registration information”
Specifically, Rensselaer
apparently indicates that they’re going to share the list of people registering
through the DMV, ostensibly to combat illegal immigration (the only
relevant list ICE would have, I believe, pertains to individuals overstaying visas).
I’m not sure… Continue reading
“Fulton reduces early voting as cities complain about election costs”
“Japan to test online voting for overseas citizens”
I’d be most interested in knowing whether this
system contemplates a secret ballot or not.
“Judiciary chair demands Hope Hicks clarify closed-door testimony”
On whether she had direct knowledge of payments to Stormy Daniels, or whether she was “present” when Trump discussed Daniels.
The documents unsealed in the Cohen warrant today seem to suggest there may be more to the story.
“Does the Fourteenth Amendment Require Collecting Citizenship Data?”
Thomas Berry makes the case that it does, in Yale’s Notice & Comment administrative law blog.
He’s promised more on enforcing that reading tomorrow, with a hint of a note of caution.
One note: whether the basic argument is… Continue reading
Justice Kagan speaks at Georgetown Law event
Some enlightening answers on interesting questions. She’s spot-on on partisan gerrymandering. And on Spider-Man.