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Posted on August 10, 2022 · There have been five presidents who won the electoral vote but not the popular vote, including George W. Bush and Donald Trump.

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Texas lawmakers ordered to turn over redistricting records

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Posted on July 26, 2022 · The order is the latest victory for civil rights groups claiming discrimination and intimidation leading up to the 2022 midterms, but history indicates the case is unlikely to be resolved before voters head to the polls.

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The U.S. census estimates it missed more than a half-million Texans during 2020 count

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Posted on May 19, 2022 · Immigrants, people living in poverty and non-English speakers were among the most likely to be missed, yet the crucial count received lackluster promotion by Texas state government.

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Here’s How The 1st 2020 Census Results Changed Electoral College, House Seats

HANSI LO WANG, NPR / CONNIE HANZHANG JIN, NPR / ZACH LEVITT, NPR

Posted on April 26, 2021 · Based on population shifts recorded by the 2020 census, Texas, Florida and North Carolina are among the states gaining representation, while California, New York and Pennsylvania are losing influence.

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Posted on December 18, 2020 · The opinion said the case was "riddled with contingencies and speculation that impede judicial review."

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Court Order Keeps Census In Limbo As Counting End Date Looms

HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on September 17, 2020 · After the Trump administration missed a filing deadline for court documents, a judge has ordered the wrap-up of the census to remain on hold, throwing door-knocking efforts further into uncertainty.

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With No Final Say, Trump Wants To Change Who Counts For Dividing Up Congress’ Seats

HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on July 21, 2020 · The president is calling for unauthorized immigrants to be excluded from census numbers used to divide seats in Congress. The Constitution says the count must include every person living in the U.S.

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Trump Orders Agencies To Share Data On Noncitizens

HANSI LO WANG, NPR / FRANCO ORDOÑEZ, NPR

Posted on July 11, 2019 · The administration has been in a legal fight for more than a year to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. It has been blocked by the Supreme Court for now.

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Trump Administration To Print 2020 Census Without Citizenship Question

HANSI LO WANG, NPR / Amita Kelly, NPR

Posted on July 2, 2019 · The move comes shortly after the Supreme Court ruled to keep the question off census forms for now.

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Supreme Court Leaves Citizenship Question Blocked For Now From 2020 Census

Nina Totenberg, NPR / HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on June 27, 2019 · The decision comes more than a year after the Trump administration announced plans to include on forms for the national head count the question, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"

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2020 Census Could Lead To Worst Undercount Of Black, Latinx People In 30 Years

HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on June 4, 2019 · Public debate over a potential citizenship question and immigration enforcement, combined with the census going online, threatens an accurate head count, according to research by the Urban Institute.

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A Decade Of Implications At Stake, Supreme Court Hears Census Citizenship Question

HANSI LO WANG, NPR / Nina Totenberg, NPR

Posted on April 23, 2019 · The justices are weighing whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. A decision is expected this summer, when printing of the census forms is set to begin.

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Supreme Court To Decide Whether 2020 Census Will Include Citizenship Question

HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on February 15, 2019 · The high court agreed to a speedy review of a lower court's ruling that stopped Trump administration plans to use the census to ask whether every person living in the country is a U.S. citizen.

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Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question

HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on January 15, 2019 · A federal judge in New York has issued the first ruling out of multiple lawsuits over a question about U.S. citizenship status. The ruling is expected to be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Citizenship Question Controversy Complicating Census 2020 Work, Bureau Director Says

HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on July 12, 2018 · Facing multiple lawsuits over addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the U.S. Census Bureau head tells NPR a long legal fight could raise the head count's cost and risk a bad count.

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Documents Shed Light On Decision To Add Census Citizenship Question

HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on June 10, 2018 · Emails and memos show Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross overruled Census Bureau concerns and was urged to exclude noncitizens from census numbers used to reallocate congressional seats.

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More Than 20 Cities And States Sue Government Over Census Questions

HANSI LO WANG, NPR / PBS NewsHour

Posted on April 3, 2018 · The new lawsuit comes more than a week after California filed a similar lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Census Bureau officials

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2020 Census Will Ask White People More About Their Ethnicities

HANSI LO WANG, NPR

Posted on February 2, 2018 · The Census Bureau says people who mark "White" for their race will be asked to write in their origins in countries such as Ireland. Some white people say they're not sure how to answer that question

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