https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2021/02/census-delay-throws-redistricting/ Just a few highlights.... The Feb. 18 program, “Redistricting: What Every Lawyer Should Know about the Decennial Process of Redrawing Electoral Lines,” explored legal issues related to the delayed census count, which has been attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and past court battles. Under the U.S. Constitution, the census count is used every 10 years to allocate seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. It is also used to draw state and local electoral boundaries, for funding some federal programs and for business to project consumer spending patterns. The new September deadline likely means that Virginia and New Jersey, which have general state elections in November, will have to delay their state redistricting until after those contests. In North Carolina, several dozen city council elections could be postponed from fall to next year. Redistricting will be “even more difficult this go-around,” said panelist Terry Ao Minnis of the organization Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Lawyers should get involved in litigation, education or other efforts to foster more public involvement in the redistricting process, said moderator Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.