Symposium: Only in America
Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
Symposium before the oral argument in Department of Commerce v. New York
7 articles
Symposium: There is no valid justification for the citizenship question
Wendy Weiser is the director and Kelly Percival is counsel of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
Symposium: Questioning citizenship versus questioning the question
John S. Baker Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center. It will be interesting to see how much of the upcoming Supreme Court argument in Department of Commerce v. New York will be devoted to President Donald Trump’s tweets and other statements not vetted by his lawyers.
Symposium: Unfinished business — SCOTUS and the citizenship question
Erin Hustings is legislative counsel for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund. When the Supreme Court reviews the Census Bureau’s proposed citizenship question, it will face the issue after extraordinary gaps in procedure.
Symposium: The enumeration clause and Census Act provide important reviewable constraints on the conduct of the decennial census — and Secretary Ross violated both
Mary McCord serves as Senior Litigator at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Symposium: Facts, not fears, should control outcome of census citizenship question case
Mithun Mansinghani serves as solicitor general for the state of Oklahoma, which filed an amicus brief joined by 16 other states in support of the petitioners in Department of Commerce v. New York.
Merits CasesPlain English / Cases Made SimpleSymposium before the oral argument in Department of Commerce v. New York
Justices will review challenge to census citizenship question: In Plain English
In March 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 census would ask whether each person being counted by the census is a U.S. citizen.