The Constitution requires apportionment to be based on a count of all "persons," excluding only "Indians not taxed."
Zoning laws, occupancy limits, and short-term rental restrictions are keeping housing off the market and driving up costs.
There are many reasons people move, but overburdening your citizens is a good way to lose them.
California's economy is growing despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's policies, not because of them.
Financial pressure is the main reason why people say they move, and pandemic-era public policy created a lot more financial pressure in certain places.
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People who checked the "Some Other Race" or racial combination census boxes are now America's second largest ethnic group.
The Sixth Circuit made quick work of a district court opinion concluding Ohio lacked standing to sue for overdue Census data.
California has morphed from a land of limitless opportunity to a highly regulated land of limits and control. No wonder so many people are leaving.
The tax- and corruption-heavy state has lost a quarter-million people in the past decade.
The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to Trump's plans for being "premature" until the administration actually does what it says it plans to do.
The case was dismissed on procedural grounds that will change when and if the administration actually decides which people will be excluded.
Many of the justices seem intent on avoiding the substantive issues at stake in a case challenging the legality of Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment count for congressional representation.
In a year that will be remembered for a deadly pandemic that shut down parts of the economy and cost millions of people their jobs, here's one silver lining.
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The brief filed by Univ. of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson and myself explains why the Trump administration's efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment count for allocating seats in the House of Representatives goes against the text and original meaning of the Constitution.
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The government is perfectly capable of counting heads in a less-intrusive and more-hygienic way.
The Census Bureau sketches out scenarios in which immigration remains about the same, increases by 50 percent, falls by 50 percent, or halts entirely.
Newly released data suggests Census analysts dramatically over-estimated the extent to which a citizenship question would discourage responses.
Our most troubled state enters 2020 having lost residents for six years in a row.
Even if the president's motives were partisan, a more plausible cover story would have been enough to pass judicial muster.
Instead, the president signed an executive order directing government agencies to sift through documents and databases to determine Americans' citizenship status.
The commerce secretary could easily have reinstated the citizenship question if he had been less transparently dishonest.
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The Census fight overlooks the fact that the number of unauthorized residents is declining.
Did Trump change his mind about the citizenship question twice, or did his underlings ignore him? Which is worse?
The president's seeming ability to always get what he wants masks the reality that anything is possible in today's political and cultural landscape.
The Supreme Court was right to rule that the administration's rationale for adding a question about citizenship to the Census was bogus. But it would have done better to rule that inclusion of the question was beyond the scope of the federal government's enumerated powers.
The Court concludes that the commerce secretary's "contrived" explanation frustrated "meaningful judicial review."
And that whole Voting Rights Act justification? Kinda the opposite, actually.
Bill de Blasio's coming humiliation is just the latest evidence of the outer-borough president's revenge on Manhattan.
The commerce secretary falsely portrayed the decision to include a citizenship question as a response to a Justice Department request.
The commerce secretary's phony rationale for adding a citizenship question is inconsistent with the rule of law.
The Trump administration can't ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, Judge Jesse Furman ruled.
Skyrocketing debt and pension obligations make for a tough labor environment.
New Census data shows little change from 2016.
Kris Kobach suffers legal, factual, and professional humiliation at the hands of a federal judge, though his conspiratorial cause still lives on at the White House.
Projections of minority-majority U.S. population are based on outdated and arbitrary ethno-racial Census categories.
Stop trying to draft me as a data point for your federal lobbying efforts.
A higher non-response rate among illegal immigrants is a goal to be celebrated, not some minor potential side effect to be lamented, Kris Kobach, David Vitter, and other would-be gerrymanderers stress.
