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Census Bureau Proposes Excluding Noncitizens From the 2030 Apportionment Count and Dropping Race and Ethnicity Questions

The Census Bureau has proposed a rule for the 2030 census that would exclude people who are neither citizens nor green-card holders from the population counts used to divide the 435 House seats among the states. It would also drop the questions on race and …

civil service

Judge Blocks USDA From Relocating About 2,600 Staff, Citing Limits Congress Wrote Into Spending Law That Run to December 11

Judge Vince Chhabria of the federal district court in San Francisco on 13 October blocked the Agriculture Department from moving about 2,600 …

oversight

Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Whether DOGE Must Answer Questions in a FOIA Case, and Takes Up the Asylum Material Support Bar

The Supreme Court on 13 October agreed to hear U.S. DOGE Service v. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 25-1103). The case …

courts

Supreme Court Hears Whether Judges Still Defer to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary After Loper Bright

The Supreme Court heard arguments on 13 October in Beaird v. United States (No. 25-5343), a case about how much weight judges must give the …