Electoral Reform- Part 6: Redistricting

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  November 16th at 04:53 AM  | 

The Constitution requires that every ten years, the country must conduct a census of its population. In the most recent census, several of my more conservative friends believed this to be some liberal conspiracy of varying sorts and asserted their intention not to return their census form. Of course, they do so at their own political peril. The purpose is to first determine the number | Read More »

The Supreme Court and Three Cases They Decided Not To Take On

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  March 21st at 08:23 AM  | 

On Monday March 19, the Supreme Court denied three cases of interest- two involving religion in the abstract and another involving reapportionment and the census. The latter is a case being pursued by the state of Louisiana which seeks to invalidate the 2010 Census results. They claim that is inherently unfair and unconstitutional to count illegal immigrants as part of the population for reapportionment purposes. | Read More »