2020 census
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State leaders must implement meaningful reform by establishing neutral, independent or bipartisan commissions to draw fair election maps. - In the Trump era, sorting fact from fiction can be a challenge. With the administration's bogus census claims, the nation's top jurist was on the case.
- The U.S. Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump's administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, for now.
- The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule Thursday morning on a high-profile case alleging unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering in Maryland.
- A lawsuit that alleges a 2020 census question pushed by the Trump administration violates minorities' rights will be sent back to a federal court in Maryland.
- Donald Trump has no interest in actually solving America's immigration problems. He just wants to scare immigrants to death.
- A Maryland judge says new evidence suggests a racially discriminatory motive behind Trump administration's push to ask everyone about citizenship status.
- Census Bureau employees swear a lifetime oath to protect respondent data. So, no one is getting arrested, deported or hit with fines based on census data.
- Census data affects redistricting, education, welfare programs, transportation, the number of representatives in Congress, and more.
- Baltimore needs for the Supreme Court to uphold lower court rulings that would prevent a citizenship question on the 2020 Census as the city looks to immigrants to boost its years-long declining population.
- Statewide, Howard County had the largest population growth over the last eight years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual population estimates released Thursday.
- For the first time, the Census Bureau will accept online responses to the decennial questionnaire.
- A third federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, ruling Friday that it poses a "substantial risk" of undercounting Hispanics and non-citizens.
- Rep. Elijah Cummings says he has “very serious questions” about whether U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was truthful in explaining how the Trump administration developed a census question about citizenship status. Ross says he "testified truthfully to the best of my ability."
- House Bill 463, sponsored by Anne Arundel County Republican Michael Malone seeks keep redistricting maps simple and counteract gerrymandering by requiring congressional districts to be compact and respect geographic boundaries and local city and county boundaries.
