CLC filed this comment opposing the Census Bureau’s attempt to collect state administrative records, such as Department of Motor Vehicles data, for the purpose of producing data on citizen voting-age population (CVAP). President Trump has suggested that by producing statistics on the CVAP of each census block in the United States, the Census Bureau will enable states to draw voting districts that deny representation to non-U.S. citizens and minors. However, CLC argues that even if this type of redistricting were acceptable in the abstract (which it is not), it could not be accomplished using the data the Census Bureau plans to produce. The Bureau’s CVAP estimates will be too unreliable for redistricting, in part because state administrative records on citizenship are notoriously outdated and riddled with errors. Moreover, the Bureau’s collection of state citizenship records puts the 2020 Census at risk by stoking fear of the Bureau among non-U.S. citizens and their communities.

On November 25, 2019, the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Southern Division issued an order denying a preliminary injunction. 

Voters Not Politicians' motion to intervene was granted in the Daunt v. Benson case by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

CLC filed this comment in response to disturbing evidence that the U.S. Census Bureau might provide less transparency about the accuracy and fairness of the 2020 Census than it did for past censuses. In recent decades, the Bureau has used data from its post-enumeration survey to calculate and publish estimated undercounts and overcounts for the U.S., for each state, and for large cities and counties within states. But according to documents disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, the Bureau might not publish these coverage estimates for counties and cities after the 2020 Census.

These sub-state coverage estimates are critically important. When different parts of the same state are undercounted at different rates, the disproportionately undercounted communities lose their fair share of state funding and representation in statewide politics. Without sub-state coverage estimates, these communities may not know that they have suffered these injuries, and therefore will have less opportunity to advocate for policies that level the playing field. Suppressing sub-state coverage estimates also limits the ability of census advocates to engage in get-out-the-count efforts targeting historically undercounted areas. The Census Bureau therefore should publish sub-state coverage estimates, and should make sure it collects sufficient data to do so.

CLC’s founder and president Trevor Potter delivered remarks reflecting on the state of redistricting reform in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause.

On September 19, 2019, Voters Not Politicians filed a brief in opposition to the motion for preliminary injunction. 

On September 19, 2019, Voters Not Politicians filed a brief in opposition to the motion for preliminary injunction. 

On September 19, 2019, Voters Not Politicians filed a brief in support of the motion to dismiss.

On September 19, 2019, Voters Not Politicians filed a brief in support of the motion to dismiss.

"Constitutional Challenges Facing Our Democracy: The Roberts Court’s Wrong Turns on Campaign Finance, Gerrymandering, and Voting Rights," a speech given by Trevor Potter at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana.

CLC filed this exhibit to be considered with the Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment and Opposition to the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. The exhibit contains a redacted email from Earl Comstock to Secretary Ross discussing the census citizenship question. 

CLC filed this exhibit to be considered with the Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment and Opposition to the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. It contains a memo to Sec. Ross concerning reinstatement of the citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire. 

CLC filed this exhibit to be considered with the Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment and Opposition to the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. The exhibit contains a letter from the Justice Management Division to the Census Bureau concerning the reinstatement of the citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire. 

CLC filed this exhibit to be considered with the Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment and Opposition to the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. This exhibit contains a redacted email from Secretary Ross to Earl Comstock discussing the census. 

CLC filed this exhibit to be considered with the Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment and Opposition to the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. The exhibit contains a supplemental memo by Secretary Ross concerning the administrative record in census litigation. 

CLC filed a Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment that also opposes the DOJ's Motion for Summary Judgment in this case. The filing requests that the Court grant relief in favor of CLC. 

Nadav Ariel, an attorney representing CLC, gave this declaration in support of CLC's Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment and Opposition of Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment.