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Census

The U.S. Census is required under the U.S. Constitution to occur every 10 years and is the process of counting every resident in the country. For the first time ever, the Census will be primarily digitally based.

League Submits Comments Regarding Citizenship on 2020 Census (Legal Document)

The League submitted organizational comments regarding the inclusion of the citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

League Urges Bipartisan Committee to Continue to Demand Transparency on the 2020 Census (Blog)

The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continues to explore the proposal of a question related to citizenship on the 2020 Census.

League Sends Letter to House Committee on Citizenship and the U.S. Census (Article)

The League sent a letter to the U.S. House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee urging the committee to use its power and remove the citizenship question from the 2020 Census.

League Commends Chairman Gowdy for Demanding DOJ Official Answer Census Citizenship Questions (Blog)

It is up to Congress to exercise oversight authority over the Census Bureau and  remove the citizenship question from the 2020 Census. 

 

League Joins Groups Demanding Oversight Hearings on Census Citizenship Question (Article)

The League joined letters calling on the committees of jurisdiction in the U.S. Senate and  House to address the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Critics Say Citizenship Question on Census Could Lead to Undercount (News Clips)

For the first time in more than half a century, the decennial census will ask respondents to indicate whether they’re a U.S. citizen or not.

League Sends Letter to President Trump Regarding Census Bureau Director (Legal Document)

The League joined 168 national, state and local organizations in urging the President to nominate a highly qualified and widely respected professional to serve as the next Director of the U.S. Census Bureau.

U.S. Supreme Court Considers the Idea of Representation (Blog)

Evenwel v. Abbott, a case out of Texas, has the potential to upset the criteria for drawing state and local legislative districts so that they would be determined by the total number of voters instead of total population. The League submitted an amicus brief in Evenwel that supports the current practice of drawing district lines.

League Joins Comments to Census Bureau (Article)

The League joined national civil rights, voting rights, labor and criminal justice organizations in submitting comments to the Census Bureau asking that incarcerated persons be counted at their home address, rather than the prison facility they occupy on census day. The League believes that if the Census Bureau modified its residence rule with respect to incarcerated persons, all states and localities will have the opportunity to more accurately and equitably reflect the incarcerated population in their redistricting plans.

Census (Topic Page)

The US Census is the once-in-a-decade process of counting every resident in the country. This data is then used to create district maps during the redistricting cycle.