#Apportionment

Heritage Foundation

Heritage

The right to vote is a sacred one—and America’s leaders should make every effort, within the bounds of U.S. law, to ensure that right is protected. The Trump administration’s move

Mark Krikorian

MarkSKrikorian

Not sure there's really any practical way to do this, but the president's order does put Dems in the position of publicly supporting the counting of illegal aliens for purposes

#ReleaseTheKRAKEN BrunoBarking

Bruno062418

"FISA BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE"If?FISA-backed evidence showing crime of election fr@ud "denying the vote"... will "BRING DOWN THE HOUSE" of Representatives' number below 435, as stipulated in Amend 14 Sect

Michael McDonald

ElectProject

I’d like to clarify this violates the constitutionhttps://twitter.com/tamarakeithnpr/status/1285613066177122309 What this is setting up is for the White House to issue bogus apportionment numbers to Congress. There is no process in

Hansi Lo Wang

hansilowang

While we stare at the Electoral College map, your regular reminder that the number of electoral votes each state has is determined by the results of the census... ...and despite

Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette

Veritas_DHG

I’m undecided as to whether this is more fuckery from Bill Barr or just standard corporate capture at #DOJ. Or maybe some combination of both. Sometimes the worst corruption is

Jessi Turnure

JessiTurnure

Four former Census Bureau directors just testified during this morning's House Oversight Committee hearing that President Trump's attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the #2020Census is unconstitutional. #NexstarDC More t

Hansi Lo Wang

hansilowang

NEW: DOJ attorney John Coghlan tells a federal court in Maryland the Trump admin doesn't know what groups of unauthorized immigrants — other than those in ICE detention centers —

Michael Macagnone

mikemacagnone

Here's the thread for the @OversightDems hearing on the #2020Census efforts, with a particular eye on President Donald Trump's effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from apportionment results. Hearing is now

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

Here's a terrific preview of today's oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the latest census case. This time around, Trump is trying to exclude undocumented immigrants from the population

Jessica Mason Pieklo

Hegemommy

Welp Happy Holiday's from SCOTUS with a mess of a decision on the census this morning Here's the opinion. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-366_7647.pdf By a 6-3 vote the Court says the challenge to

Mike Sacks

MikeSacksEsq

And the timing will make this even more of a mess:President Trump must deliver Secretary Ross's report, with apportionment tabulations, to Congress within a week after its new members are

Hansi Lo Wang

hansilowang

NEW: As expected, the Supreme Court has overturned lower court rulings out of California & Maryland that had blocked Trump's census apportionment memo. The liberal justices dissent, as they did

matt miller

Hillbilly_Matt

Leaving aside, (1) how you would identify the number of undocumented folks, and, (2) whether it would be a good idea...The constitution is pretty clear that state's get representatives based

Ballot Box Scotland

BallotBoxScot

Time for a topical BBS THREAD (an exciting one on boundaries):Proposed Commons seat numbers (but not yet boundaries) for each region/nation of the UK in the upcoming boundary review are

Adam Klasfeld

KlasfeldReports

NEW:The Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit that would have blocked Trump's census-apportionment memo for lack of standing, a principle Trump vilified before that boosts him now.This analysis of oral arguments

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