If you want to know why the white Christian nationalist MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump is working overtime to pass GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression and voter disenfranchisement laws, and will now engage in extreme gerrymandering in order to maintain its tyranny of the minority, today’s release of U.S. Census data holds the … Read more
States are months away from getting the census data they need to draw new political maps, but courts are already filling up with lawsuits challenging the redistricting process. Politico reports, Delayed census data kicks off flood of redistricting lawsuits: One of the Democratic Party’s most prominent lawyers quickly filed three suits in states where neither Republicans … Read more
Donald Trump’s attempt to manipulate census data to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional reapportionment, and rushing the census deadline last fall during a coronavirus pandemic produced a deeply flawed census, resulting in his administration’s missing the January deadline to get that census data to Congress. Data snags cause Trump to miss giving Congress census data: … Read more
Almost a decade ago, I did a post on Before redistricting, consider increasing the number of districts. (The graphics in this post have since been lost after we converted to a new blog software). I argued: Before you get upset and spit out your coffee over the mere thought of the idea of adding more … Read more
President Donald Trump’s memorandum to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to exclude people living in the country illegally from the 2020 Census population count used to apportion congressional seats is headed for a Supreme Court showdown on Monday in Trump v. New York. This is a fundamental element of minority rule by Republicans: shift congressional seats away from … Read more