Red-tape voter suppression: How new, draconian voter registration rules undermine voting rights»
The Brookings Institution | June 11, 2019 – Each year, millions of Americans register to vote or update their voter registration thanks to the tireless efforts of civil society organizations that run voter registration tables, go door-to-door with voter registration forms, or otherwise remind potential voters to get registered in time to vote.
Trump’s Proposed Census Citizenship Question Bucks Centuries Of Precedent»
NPR | May 22, 2019 – A close review of that history dating back to 1820 leads to one conclusion: Never before has the federal government used the census to directly ask for the citizenship status…
6 Themes To Pay Attention To In Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions»
NPR | May 21, 2019 – The Trump administration is trying to add a citizenship question to the upcoming census. The court will decide whether it can. Based on questioning during oral arguments, the court’s conservatives appeared…
Statement by New Mexico Counts 2020 Regarding Supreme Court Consideration of Census Question»
Press Release | April 24, 2019 – Yesterday, advocates for an accurate census count made a compelling argument before the United States Supreme Court to exclude a question regarding citizenship from the 2020 Census. There is clear…
Supreme Court Appears To Lean Toward Allowing Census Citizenship Question»
NPR | April 23, 2019 – Based on their questions during Tuesday's oral arguments at the high court, the justices appear ready to vote 5-4 to allow the Trump administration to add the hotly contested questions to forms for next year's national head count.
How The Citizenship Question Could Break The Census»
FiveThirtyEight | April 23, 2019 – The Trump administration is facing an important question: Why add a question to the census that could harm the quality and credibility of the data — and also may not be necessary?
