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2020 Census
2020 census
Aug. 13, 2021
After Fears of a Pandemic Undercount, Census Numbers for NYC Are Way Up Multilingual outreach and a major effort to find unlisted apartments helped find half a million people.
By Caroline Spivack
2020 census
Aug. 12, 2021
Census Data Show America Is Getting Less and Less White This may put a dent in Republicans’ gerrymandering schemes.
By Ed Kilgore
redistricting
May 4, 2021
State-Legislative Redistricting Is a Big Deal, Too While most people focus on congressional redistricting, the state-legislative-redistricting process is where Republicans may perpetuate their power.
By Ed Kilgore
New York Will Lose Seat in Congress Because 89 People Didn’t Fill Out the Census 2020 census reapportionment data showed seven House seats changing hands, but a net gain of just three in states carried by Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
partisan gerrymandering
Feb. 12, 2021
Census Delays Could Create Havoc and Skullduggery in Redistricting Lack of timely Census data could short-circuit court challenges to partisan gerrymandering, which Republicans in particular are expected to pursue.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 census
Nov. 19, 2020
Trump Planned to Break the Census, Just Not This Way The Trump administration’s plan to speed up the census and suppress the undocumented is expected to delay the process until after Biden is in office.
By Matt Stieb
2020 census
Sept. 3, 2020
Leaked Census Document Warns of ‘Serious Errors’ Due to Shortened Timeline The Trump administration’s most effective attempt to undermine the census is also its simplest.
By Matt Stieb
Congressional Democrats Need to Stop the Census Power Grab The Trump administration claims there isn’t enough time to count everybody. Democrats should insist that Congress give it to them.
By Ed Kilgore
Census Bureau to End Counting Efforts a Month Early Advocates say the Trump administration is attempting to leave out people in marginalized groups.
By Adam K. Raymond
2020 census
July 21, 2020
Trump Tries Last-Ditch Order to Keep Undocumented Immigrants Off Census Trump’s plan to subtract undocumented immigrants from the total Census population probably won’t work, as it appears to violate the 14th Amendment.
By Matt Stieb
vision 2020
July 13, 2020
Can Trump Make the Supreme Court a Campaign Issue Again? Trump-appointed justices didn’t give conservatives everything they hoped for. That only raises the stakes in November.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 census
Dec. 16, 2019
It Sure Looks Like Republicans Don’t Want an Accurate Census Count There’s a stark partisan divide between state governments that encourage their residents to participate in the 2020 Census, and those that don’t.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Trump’s New Attempt to Skew Redistricting After SCOTUS halted a citizen question in the 2020 Census, the administration is collecting data states can use to base redistricting on citizenship.
By Ed Kilgore
reapportionment.
July 22, 2019
How the Political Map Is Likely to Shift After the 2020 Census While congressional redistricting is a tricky game, we already have a pretty clear idea of which states will gain or lose House seats.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
July 18, 2019
If Democrats Are Going to Impeach Trump, They Should Impeach Him for His Bigotry Al Green offered Democrats a chance to make it clear Trump’s racism isn’t acceptable. They turned it down.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 census
July 11, 2019
Trump Caves on Census Citizenship Question, But Hints at a Broader Fight Ahead It was a classic Trumpian retreat, disguised in a cloud of obfuscation, lies, and threats.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Administration Drops Citizenship Question From 2020 Census Trump’s plot to rig the 2020 Census was undone by his administration’s own incompetence.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Toys With Delaying 2020 Census, Maybe Defying Constitution After the Supreme Court rejected his rationale for a citizenship question, Trump is mulling a pricy delay or perhaps constitutional brinkmanship.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 27, 2019
Supreme Court Puts Census Citizenship Question on Hold — for Now In a 5–4 decision, the Court told the Trump administration to supply a better rationale for a Census citizenship question. Whether it can is unclear.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 21, 2019
Where’s the Supreme Court’s Census Decision? It’s possible new evidence of the administration’s true intent in placing a citizenship question in the 2020 Census is causing a delay at SCOTUS.
By Ed Kilgore
Why a Dead GOP Operative’s Files Could Change the Electoral Map for a Decade Discarded files from a GOP gerrymandering wiz could upset administration’s plans to intimidate immigrants with a 2020 Census citizenship question.
By Ed Kilgore
Will the Mountain West Become Pivotal in Future Elections? Yes, the Mountain West is growing rapidly, but it’s still going to need a lot more people and electoral votes to become the center of attention.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 census
Jan. 15, 2019
Judge Strikes Down Citizenship Question on 2020 Census From redistricting to federal grant formulas, a lot depends on this case, which will likely wind up on the Supreme Court docket.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Nov. 27, 2018
Democrats Made Gains on Redistricting, But the Game’s Not Over Yet Democrats are in a better position than they were a decade ago, but what happens in the next two years will matter a great deal.
By Ed Kilgore
New York City’s Demographer-in-Chief Is Worried About the 2020 Census The question about citizenship is going to leave New York undercounted. That’s really bad.
By Justin Davidson
Trump’s Census Change Could Give the GOP an Advantage for Years to Come The decision to ask about citizenship would likely discourage immigrant participation and give the GOP a new tool in redistricting efforts.
By Margaret Hartmann
