Census Redistricting News Today

A three-judge panel in North Carolina ruled that the state's new GOP-drawn district map can proceed, finding that it does not violate the state's constitution.

Dublin San Ramon Services District kicked off the process for drawing up new election division boundaries with the first of three public meetings last Tuesday night.

The Iowa legislature on Tuesday rejected the state’s first redistricting proposal, punting the authority back to a nonpartisan agency to draw another map.

Apr 16, 2021 Ohio has seen some success after it sued the U.S. Census Bureau for delaying the release of data needed to redraw political districts. Census Bureau officials now say they will release the data earlier than planned … but in an “outdated format.” “Given the difficulty in using data in this format, any state using this data would have to accept responsibility for how they process these files, whether correctly or incorrectly,” James Whitehorne, the bureau’s chief of the ...

The new date could create problems for states that have elections scheduled.

The Census Bureau has announced that an executive order issued by Joe Biden means that data in the 2020 US Census will exclude information on citizenship and immigration. The agency has paused work on a project initiated by former US President, Donald Trump, to gather data on US immigration status.   Amid attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census count, the Trump administration sought to add a US citizenship question to the decennial Census. The move was blocked by the Suprem...

Back to you. >> bret: major garrett live on the north lawn. thank you. the labor department is reversing bush administration rules that made it easier for farmers to hire temporary foreign workers. new regulations taking effect next month will require jobs to be potioned on an electronic registry in order to give domestic workers first shot. it also mandates a wage increase of about $1 an hour. the administration is changing the policy about how prison inmates factor in to post census redistrict...

Back to you. >> bret: major garrett live on the north lawn. thank you. the labor department is reversing bush administration rules that made it easier for farmers to hire temporary foreign workers. new regulations taking effect next month will require jobs to be potioned on an electronic registry in order to give domestic workers first shot. it also mandates a wage increase of about $1 an hour. the administration is changing the policy about how prison inmates factor in to post census redistrict...