Category Archives: census litigation
House Democrats’ Report on Census Question Shows Early White House Involvement, Effort to “Avoid Phones” in Setting Groundwork for Citizenship Question
Hansi Lo Wang:
https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1143444217857024002
“In Supreme Court census case, chief justice’s priorities are colliding”
Ronald Brownstein for CNN:
But on cases affecting the core electoral interests of the two parties — like the decision impending this week on whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census — Roberts… Continue reading
Plaintiffs in Census Case File Another Letter at Supreme Court, Litigating to the Very End
“Inside The Massive, Coordinated Push To Make Sure A Census Citizenship Question Does Not “Distort Democracy””
Federal District Court in Maryland Will Reopen Census Case If Permitted to Do So By Appeals Court Based on Hofeller Evidence Showing Government Intent to Discriminate Against Hispanics
From today’s order:
This Court previously concluded that the Secretary’s articulated reason for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census—to improve Voting Rights Act (VRA) enforcement— was a pretext. ECF No. 154 at 108. However, the Court held that… Continue reading
New Estimate from Census Department Researchers Forthcoming in Peer Reviewed Journal Finds Citizenship Question Could Depress Response Rate by 8 Percent in Households That May Have Noncitizens
This paper is forthcoming in Demography (h/t Hansi Lo Wang). Here is the abstract:
he addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census could affect the self-response rate, a key driver of the cost and quality of a… Continue reading
DOJ Signals That If States Want to Start Drawing Legislative Districts on the Basis of Equal Numbers of Eligible Voters Not People (Which Will Shift Power to Republican Party and Against Hispanics), Trump Administration Will Support It
A nugget from the government’s SCOTUS filing opposing plaintiffs’ motion for a limited remand in the census case (on the basis of the Hofeller evidence):
More on the significance of this in my recent Slate piece.
As 4th Circuit Contemplates Additional Hearing on Race Discrimination in Adding Citizenship Question to Census, DOJ Files SCOTUS Brief Trying to Preempt Such Consideration
Hansi Lo Wang:
NEW: The 4th Circuit has set June 24 as the deadline for Trump admin to respond to request by @MALDEF @AAAJ_AAJC to send #CitizenshipQuestion lawsuits in Maryland back to the trial court, where U.S. District Judge George… Continue reading
No Census or redistricting cases from SCOTUS today
Rick is otherwise engaged at the moment, so I thought I’d send word: four opinions from SCOTUS this morning, but not the Census or redistricting cases. More opinions coming at 10am ET tomorrow.
“House Oversight Republicans release parts of Kobach, Trump officials’ testimony on census citizenship question”
The Hill:
Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Tuesday released new portions of an interview with former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on his role in adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.Rep. Jim … Continue reading
“Top Trump Census Official Communicated With GOP Operative About Citizenship Question”
Mark Joseph Stern for Slate:
On Friday night, however, voting rights advocates released new evidence connecting Hofeller directly to the Census Bureau. The evidence comes from Hofeller’s hard drives, which his daughter gave to a voting rights group after his… Continue reading
Breaking: Plaintiffs in Census Case Want #SCOTUS to Send Case Back to District Court for More Factfinding if Government Lied About Reason for Citizenship Question; Thoughts on What the Court Will Do
Plaintiffs have filed this unusual motion in the Supreme Court asking for the Court to send the case back to the district court to engage in factfinding over whether government officials lied about why Secretary Ross decided to include the… Continue reading