The same explosive question rumbled through this week’s Supreme Court ruling on the 2020 census and the two nights of Democratic presidential debates: How will America respond to the propulsive demographic, social, and economic changes remaking the nation? The juxtaposition of these two events, purely coincidental, underscored how much of […] Read more »
Immigration and the 2020 Elections
On behalf of the Immigration Hub, Global Strategy Group conducted an online survey of 1500 likely 2020 presidential election voters in battleground states and 1526 likely 2020 Democratic presidential primary election voters nationwide between June 14th and June 20th, 2019. Trump is vulnerable on immigration, but that does not automatically […] Read more »
People Who Can’t Vote Still Count Politically in America. What if That Changes?
… The Constitution is clear that congressional seats must be apportioned by total population. But states and local governments that would have comprehensive citizenship data in the next redistricting cycle could draw maps built on a very different population base, at a time when the country is growing more diverse, […] Read more »
GOP strategist and census official discussed citizenship question, new documents filed by lawyers suggest
Documents discovered in the files of a deceased Republican redistricting strategist contain further information connecting him to the Trump administration’s quest to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, say civil rights groups challenging the question. Attorneys for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Asian Americans […] Read more »
Deceased G.O.P. Strategist’s Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question
Thomas B. Hofeller achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering, the architect of partisan political maps that cemented the party’s dominance across the country. But after he died last summer, his estranged daughter discovered hard drives in her father’s home that revealed something else: Mr. […] Read more »
Despite Trump administration denials, new evidence suggests census citizenship question was crafted to benefit white Republicans
Just weeks before the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, new evidence emerged Thursday suggesting the question was crafted specifically to give an electoral advantage to white Republicans. The evidence was found in the files of […] Read more »