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Census
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Turtle Talk
Action Item: U.S. Census Bureau to hold virtual Tribal Consultation on Oct. 2 on proposed rule that eliminates race and ethnicity questions from decennial census questionnaire
The proposed rule would prohibit the collection of data on race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation on the short form decennial questionnaire or any questionnaire used for the enumeration of the…
Balkinization
The Thirty-Ninth Congress Included Persons Illegally Present in the United States in the Basis of Representation
By guestbloggerbalkin-blogspot-com
Michael L. Rosin You need to know only one number from the 1860 census in order to understand why Northern Republicans in the Thirty-Ninth Congress so expansively embraced aliens in…
Balkinization
Our Unconstitutional Reapportionment Process
By gerardn-maglioccabalkin-blogspot-com
One irony about the new proposed list of census questions for 2030 is that the only question that may be constitutionally required as an original matter is not included. That…
India Legal
Supreme Court on DNT census demand: More categories may deepen social divisions
The Supreme Court of India has today declined to entertain a plea seeking separate enumeration of Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNTs) in the national Census, observing that such demands…
ImmigrationProf Blog
President Trump seeks to change how census collects data and wants to exclude undocumented immigrants
Trump seeks to change how census collects data and wants to exclude immigrants in US illegally News agencies reported on the announcement that President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department…
ImmigrationProf Blog
US Census Categories to include MENA, change Hispanic ethnicity
The US census will change its demographic categories to include a Middle Eastern / North African (MENA) category, separate from white / caucasian, and to classify as Hispanic / Latinx…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Noncitizens undercounted in census, confirming worries and jeoparding public benefits
The Fourteenth Amendment commands a full count of the American people every ten years. This Constitutional command has long been interpreted to include citizens and noncitizens, and it is used…
Privacy Matters
Portuguese Data Protection Authority fines the National Institute of Statistics € 4.3 million
On 2 November 2022, the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (“CNPD”) issued a Decision imposing a fine of € 4,300,000 (four million three hundred euros) to the National Institute of Statistics…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Documents detail the secret strategy behind Trump’s census citizenship question push
In 2019, the Supreme Court in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts rejected the Trump administration's effort to ask a question about U.S. citizenship on the 2020 Census. NPR reports…
The Faculty Lounge
CFP: Kentucky Law Journal Symposium on Redistricting
The Kentucky Law Journal is pleased to invite proposals for its annual symposium, which will be held on October 14, 2022. The KLJ symposium is entitled Drawing the Lines: Redistricting…