Roll Call: Although the Trump administration dropped a citizenship question from this year’s census, minority groups told the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday that the question’s specter has haunted preparations for a national count that could miss millions of residents. More from NBC: There also … Continue reading
Category Archives: census litigation
Rick already mentioned a few of the exceptional election-related events at AALS so far. There are still several to come, including my stint tomorrow at 8:30 as least valuable player on a 2020 census panel with Dale Ho, Christina Mora, … Continue reading
The Daily Wire ties the census, redistricting, and (perhaps) a bit of wish fulfillment. They’re not wrong about legislative leadership use of redistricting to enforce party discipline, though. It’ll be interesting to see the extent to which New York’s new … Continue reading
Hansi also covers the Census Bureau’s final report on its 2019 test of placing a citizenship question on the decennial enumeration. (That test, of course, was conducted after Secretary Ross had already decided to include the question.) The final report … Continue reading
I have to assume that quote #30 – from the SCOTUS decision on the census’s citizenship question – is just a shameless attempt to get a retweet from @LeahLitman. (Hi, Leah!) … Continue reading
Courthouse News Service: Siding with the NAACP, the Fourth Circuit on Thursday revived claims that the Trump administration is not ready for the 2020 census and is at risk of undercounting minority communities.One of several court challenges involving the once-a-decade count, the … Continue reading
NYT: Equally remarkable, however, are the 24 states like Texas that are not spending a penny. The political divide is stark: Seventeen of those 24 are led by Republican governors and legislatures, including population heavyweights like Texas, Florida and Ohio. … Continue reading
NYT: But five months after the Supreme Court blocked the question, a steady trickle of new disclosures in the case this past month has sharpened questions about whether Republican Party politics drove the effort to add the question to the head count … Continue reading
NYT: The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Tuesday sued William P. Barr, the attorney general, and Wilbur L. Ross Jr., the commerce secretary, for refusing to produce subpoenaed documents regarding President Trump’s failed attempt to add a citizenship question … Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang: https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1198046939390066688 … Continue reading
AP: Nebraska is the first state to publicly acknowledge it will share drivers’ license records with the U.S. Census Bureau as the federal agency tries to comply with President Donald Trump’s order to count the number of U.S. citizens.The Associated … Continue reading
Wow. Lying is expensive. … Continue reading
AP: When the U.S. Census Bureau counts residents of Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods next year, a significant portion of their population will be missing: prisoners.For these predominantly black areas, with incarceration rates among the highest in the nation, the government’s longstanding … Continue reading
I’ll update this post with a link to the full filing when I have it. (Update: the document is here.) In the meantime, here is a key tweet from Jonathan Topaz: This is the email that Secretary Ross' top adviser … Continue reading
NPR: A prominent GOP redistricting strategist had direct communication with an adviser to the Trump administration concerning the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, newly released emails show….The administration’s now-former adviser on census issues, Mark Neuman, however, … Continue reading
Release. … Continue reading
Politico Pro: The New York Law School is launching a new institute that seeks to ensure that all communities are counted equitably in the upcoming 2020 Census as the decennial count faces roadblocks from the federal government.The New York Census … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
AP: The U.S. Census Bureau is asking states for drivers’ license records that typically include citizenship data and has made a new request for information on recipients of government assistance, alarming some civil rights advocates.The two approaches, documented by The … Continue reading
Justin Levitt deftly explains the importance of last term’s census case in the ACS Supreme Court Review. … Continue reading
Joan confirms what many of us suspected from reading the opinions in Dep’t of Commerce v. NY: Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote against President Donald Trump’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, but only after … Continue reading
TPM: The Census Bureau offered new details this week on how it will try to implement President Trump’s plan to help states diminish the political power of immigrant communities.The disclosures came in the form of a regulatory notice posted Monday that was … Continue reading
San Antonio Express-News: As the first U.S. census to be conducted mainly online gets underway in the coming months, warnings from the Government Accountability Office about “substantial cybersecurity challenges” and disinformation campaignsraise concerns about how such a massive operation – … Continue reading
TPM: Hans von Spakovsky — a former member of President Trump’s voter fraud commission known for overhyping claims of mass voter fraud — is encouraging states to move forward with an anti-immigrant, GOP-friendly redistricting overhaul, using citizenship data the Census … Continue reading
NPR: John Gore, the main Justice Department official behind the Trump administration’s failed push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, is set to leave the department Friday.A person familiar with the matter tells NPR Gore plans to … Continue reading
Law.com reports. … Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang for NPR. … Continue reading
The subject of the DAG’s ire was the criminal contempt vote against the AG, for failure to comply with subpoenas regarding the citizenship question on the decennial enumeration. More from Fox. … Continue reading
Wherein J. Christian Adams rails against “personal destruction” and “demonization,” and compares Kris Kobach (or, possibly, himself) to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. … Continue reading
But there are still some “headwinds” ahead (including low unemployment rates) to hiring for the push to come. … Continue reading
A follow-up in the Houston Chronicle to this NPR report a few days ago. … Continue reading
Pacific Standard notes yet another connection to Andrew Jackson, in the overtime chaos of the Census case. … Continue reading
Specifically, “untested innovations,” IT implementation, and cybersecurity. The report is here. … Continue reading
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
Michael Li, in Slate, on the census, citizenship, and representation. Related: the Council on Foreign Relations gets in on the discussion too. … Continue reading
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 right … Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse on the rule of law’s near-miss in the census case, and its aftermath. … Continue reading
David Gans weighs in on the base for representation in redistricting. UPDATE: Keshia Morris does too. … Continue reading
HuffPost on complete count advocacy in hard-to-count communities And a piece from Minnesota on a complete count, but not an over-complete count, of snowbirds. … Continue reading
Auguste Meyrat, in The Federalist, with a slightly different take on the census controversy. … Continue reading
Earl Comstock, top policy director over at Commerce, features heavily in the motion for sanctions over conduct in the litigation over the citizenship question on the census. … Continue reading
AP, NYT, WaPo, WSJ, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, CNN. The vote, 230-198 (4 Democrats voting with Republicans uniformly against, and Rep. Amash voting with the rest of the Democrats) was for failure to comply with subpoenas about the origins of … Continue reading
Michael Carvin and Kannon Shanmugam, with a bonus appearance by Miguel Estrada. I hope Mr. Carvin’s right that the Census ruling won’t really affect cases outside of this particular context. But I hope that’s because agencies won’t continue to lie … Continue reading
The fallout from yesterday’s hearing. … Continue reading
Ari Berman adds his voice to discussion of the potential ahead. … Continue reading
Demographers weigh in on alternatives to a direct count. (Note: this is an update of a piece published in 2016. Apparently, the issue is still of some interest.) … Continue reading
The motion was filed in the SDNY case, mostly directed at Commerce officials. With 428 pp. of receipts. UPDATE: HuffPost has coverage. … Continue reading
Hansi with the scoop: https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1151169448457441282 UPDATE: Here’s the final signed order itself. … Continue reading
Well, that’s an interesting strategy: You’ve got to spend money to make money. But that’s not the way Texas, and a handful of other states, are looking at the 2020 census. Officials in Texas have decided not to spend any … Continue reading
The candidates weigh in on using citizenship data in the redistricting process. … Continue reading