2020 Census

MALDEF STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT’S DISMISSAL OF CENSUS CASE

Dec 18, 2020

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

Nov 3, 2020

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

Sep 1, 2020

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

Aug 13, 2020

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

Jul 21, 2020

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

Apr 14, 2020

(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

Mar 30, 2020

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

Oct 2, 2019

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

Sep 13, 2019

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.

MALDEF Response to Alabama’s Revised Attempt to Exclude Immigrants from 2020 Census Data