Census

Two former directors of the Census Bureau, with experience serving Democratic and Republican presidents, are sounding an important warning today about the Trump administration’s preparations to count the nation’s population in 2020.

Prison-based gerrymandering threatens our democracy’s commitment to fair representation. The practice leads to certain districts becoming largely composed of voiceless individuals, since prisoners cannot vote in most states.

The Census Bureau plans to count 2 million prisoners in a way that discriminates against other Americans

This morning, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down a politically-motivated activist attempt to re-write the Constitution to exclude non-voters from political representation.