{"id":44,"date":"2004-01-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-06-18T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:07:09","slug":"taormina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2004\/01\/02\/taormina\/","title":{"rendered":"UPenn Law Review: Defying one-person, one-vote: Prisoners and the &#8220;Usual residence&#8221; principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosanna M. Taormina has published a great article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/doc\/publications\/Taormina.pdf \">Defying one-person, one-vote: Prisoners and the &#8220;Usual residence&#8221; principle<\/a>, [PDF] in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.<\/p>\n<p>The piece concludes: <\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">In this Comment, I have examined the propriety of counting imprisoned persons at their prison address for redistricting purposes.  I have suggested that this practice runs afoul of both constitutional and statutory requirements.  <span class=\"pullquote\">The Census Bureau&#8217;s &#8220;usual residence&#8221; principle, as applied to disenfranchised prisoners and former prisoners, cannot be squared with the Supreme Court&#8217;s one-person, one-vote jurisprudence.<\/span>  The Court has refused to protect prisoners stripped of the most fundamental right accorded citizens of a democracy&#8211;the right to vote.  It is time for either Congress or the Court to protect law-abiding citizens from state legislatures that unfairly take advantage of the existence of a disenfranchised population when creating &#8220;equal&#8221; congressional voting districts.  &#8220;We the People&#8221; demand nothing less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cite\">Rosanna M. Taormina, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/doc\/publications\/Taormina.pdf \">Defying one-person, one-vote: Prisoners and the &#8220;Usual residence&#8221; principle<\/a> [PDF] 152 U Pa L. Rev. 431, 459.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosanna M. Taormina has published a great article, Defying one-person, one-vote: Prisoners and the &#8220;Usual residence&#8221; principle, [PDF] in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. The piece concludes: In this Comment, I have examined the propriety of counting imprisoned persons at their prison address for redistricting purposes. I have suggested that this practice runs afoul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}