Tag Archives: Census

Velte on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity & the Census

Kyle Velte (University of Kansas School of Law) has posted Straightwashing the Census on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: The Trump Administration’s recent decision to reject proposed sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions from the 2020 Census and the American … Continue reading

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Argument preview: Justices will review challenge to census citizenship question

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post ran on April 2, 2019, as an introduction to this blog’s symposium on Department of Commerce v. New York, as well as at Howe on the Court, where it was originally published. … Continue reading

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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. Pundits, politicians and the media have warned … Continue reading

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Ginsburg puts census depositions on hold

Tonight Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg granted the federal government’s request to put off the depositions of two high-level Trump administration officials, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and John Gore, the acting head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. … Continue reading

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Law Professor Twitter Census 2018-2019 Edition: Call for Entries

The latest Law Professor Twitter Census is under way here at the Faculty Lounge.  If you are a full-time faculty member at a law school and are on Twitter, please feel free to add yourself to the list and indicate … Continue reading

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