2020 Census
CENSUS 2020 INFORMATION
MALDEF DISMISSES ITS CROSS-CLAIM IN ALABAMA CENSUS LAWSUIT
Birmingham, AL – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is dismissing a cross-claim filed in federal court in Alabama against the Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Director of the Census Bureau.
MALDEF STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT’S DISMISSAL OF CENSUS CASE
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to rule on the Trump administration’s impending attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census count used to allocate seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
MALDEF STATEMENT ON FEDERAL STAY IN ALABAMA CENSUS LAWSUIT
LOS ANGELES – A federal court on Monday issued a stay in a 2018 lawsuit filed by Alabama and Congressman Mo Brooks seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment data used in the 2020 Census. U.S. District Judge R. David Procter’s decision places the case on hold until after the U.S. Supreme Court has resolved an appeal before it in a similar case out of New York.
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS ASK COURT TO BLOCK TRUMP’S PLAN TO END CENSUS COUNT EARLY
Greenbelt, MD – Civil rights groups asked a federal court on Monday to prevent the Trump administration from ending the 2020 Census count more than a month early.
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS EXPAND LAWSUIT CHALLENGING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ATTACK ON CENSUS
Greenbelt, MD – Civil rights groups are expanding an ongoing 2019 federal lawsuit to include claims against the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to cut short the 2020 Census and to exclude some individuals from the data used for apportionment.
MALDEF STATEMENT ON TRUMP’S UNLAWFUL EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM
LOS ANGELES, CA – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s memorandum to the Secretary of Commerce that seeks to alter the required count of every person for the purpose of reapportionment by excluding some immigrants.
MALDEF STATEMENT ON THE EXTENSION OF THE 2020 CENSUS DURING COVID-19
(LOS ANGELES) – The U.S. Census Bureau plans to ask Congress to extend crucial 2020 Census deadlines because of the COVID-19 crisis. The bureau would end the collection of responses on October 31 and push the delivery of data used for apportionment to April 2021.
275+ CIVIL RIGHTS WATCHDOGS PLEDGE TO HELP ENSURE CENSUS DATA PROTECTIONS ARE UPHELD
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 275 civic leaders, non-profit organizations, elected officials, state and local groups Monday unveiled a watchdog coalition pledging to help monitor and protect the confidentiality of 2020 Census data.
MALDEF Statement on Filing of Cross-Claim in Alabama Reapportionment Case
BIRMINGHAM, AL – Latino voters are asking a federal judge in Alabama to declare that Congressional apportionment must be determined by the total population residing in the United States, as actually enumerated in the upcoming 2020 Census, according to a cross-claim filed Tuesday.
MALDEF Sues Trump Administration Over Citizenship Data Collection
GREENBELT, MD – The Trump administration’s plan to collect and provide incomplete citizenship data to the states for purposes of redistricting is an unconstitutional and racially discriminatory scheme intended to deprive Latinos and non-citizens of equal representation, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by civil rights organizations.