2020 Census

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: U.S Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham testifies before the House Oversight Committee on July 24, 2019 in Washington, DC.The hearing focused on the recent push by the Trump administration to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, which has since been abandoned. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)
The Big Fight Shaping Up Over Trump Effort To Rig The Census Even After He’s Gone Prime Badge
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By | July 27, 2020 3:45 p.m.
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, July 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump Makes Huge New Long-Term Power Grab For GOP
By By Jill Colvin and KEVIN FREKING | July 21, 2020 1:13 p.m.
A 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident, is shown in Detroit, Sunday, April 5, 2020. The Census Bureau is required by federal statute to send the president the counts that will be used to carve up congressional districts — known as apportionment — and draw state legislative districts by Dec. 31. The new coronavirus COVID-19 spread forced the U.S. Census Bureau to suspend field operations (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
The Many Potential Consequences Of A Delayed Census During Coronavirus
By DAVID A. LIEB and MIKE SCHNEIDER | April 26, 2020 11:08 a.m.
UNITED STATES - MARCH 14: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing in Rayburn Building discuss preparations for the 2020 Census and citizenship questions on Thursday March 14, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
on September 5, 2013 in Richmond, Virginia.
It Ain’t Over Prime Badge
By | June 27, 2019 11:59 a.m.
All Shook Up
By | June 25, 2019 2:28 p.m.

Big new development in the census citizenship case: Appeals court throws another roadblock in the path of the Trump administration. Tierney Sneed is working through the order and its implications here.

How Republicans Stopped Worrying About The Right To Vote
The GOP launched a four-pronged plan in 2008 to undercut the American tenet of “one person, one vote.” We're now entering the final phase.
By Timothy Smith | June 20, 2019 6:00 a.m.
What North Carolina’s Unfair Political Maps Have To Do With Hurricanes
In states prone to natural disasters, a census undercount will have disastrous consequences.
By La'Meshia Whittington-Kaminski | June 13, 2019 6:00 a.m.
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