2020 census
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Federal Judge Rules New Evidence of Race and Partisan Bias in Citizenship Question Issue Deserves a 2nd Look
A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday ruled there is enough new evidence to suggest the need to reconsider whether the Trump administration conspired to disenfranchise minorities and Democrats when it moved to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. U.S. District Court Judge George Hazel had already ruled against the citizenship question earlier…
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It’s Almost Decision Time for the US Supreme Court, With Questions Regarding Census 2020 and Gerrymandering High on the List
With the start of each June, the countdown begins to when the Supreme Court is expected to hand down decisions in cases that came before them in the term, and among the biggest items this term were cases involving census 2020 and partisan gerrymandering. How the nation’s highest court rules in these cases could lead…
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Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Seems Poised to OK Citizenship Question on 2020 Census—No Matter the Cost to Heavily Immigrant Communities
The U.S. Supreme Court seems to be headed toward backing a Trump administration move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even if doing so risks undercounting Latinos and other groups with heavy immigrant populations. Based on comments and questions raised by the conservative majority in listening to arguments Tuesday, it appeared that…
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Trump Dismisses Census as 'Meaningless' Without Citizenship Question
Every ten years, this sorta kinda important thing called the U.S. Constitution mandates that we take a head count of every resident in the United States—yes, even our exes. So, with the 2020 Census around the corner, now would be an opportune time to reiterate its importance. How congressional seats are allocated? That’s determined by…
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Let’s All Write in ‘Wakandan’ on This Disaster of a 2020 Census
This 2020 census business is getting messy—and tricky. Not only are at least a dozen states and the NAACP suing the Trump administration over it, but for the very first time, the upcoming count will also ask those who identify as “black” or “white” to further expound on their specific country of origin or ethnicity.…
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Trump’s Top Pick to Head Census Is Pro-Gerrymandering Professor Who Thinks Black People Are Overcounted
Voting and immigration-rights advocates are alarmed over Donald Trump’s leading pick to head the U.S. Census Bureau: a conservative college professor with no government experience who literally wrote a book expounding on the dangers of competitive elections. According to Politico, Trump wants to tap Thomas Brunell, a political science professor at the University of Texas…
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A Group of Black State Legislators You Probably Don’t Know Just Met to Get Ready for the Age of Trump
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of folks, there are more than 10,000 black elected officials nationwide on the local, state and federal levels. Even less known is the fact that 700 of them are state legislators: state representatives, delegates and state senators, many congregating in state capitals in nearly all the 50 states, in addition to…