The US Constitution says count EVERYBODY living in each state…
The initial reaction to this is gonna be worry….
That is premature …
The court’s ruling is actually pretty sound….
Trump want’s to exclude immigrants by having the Census Bureau put them in a separate outside category …
The Census Bureau has told the Trump people they can’t complete that in the 33 days that Trump is in office…
The justices KNOW that once Biden gets worn in?
This whole thing is moot….
Biden will control the Commerce Dept , which oversee’s the Census Bureau and the WHOLE census is gonna be produced as one thing….
Trump think this is a win in his and Republican efforts to ‘cook the books’ against Blue states that provide support for their larger immigrant populations…
But it really isn’t…
Just another does of the reality that he ain’t gonna be President in month….
The Supreme Court on Friday handed the Trump administration an interim victory in its efforts to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the calculations used to allocate seats in the House.
The court said a lawsuit challenging the plan was premature since it was not clear that there is a realistic prospect that the administration will succeed in its efforts to count those immigrants.
“At present,” the court said in an unsigned opinion, “this case is riddled with contingencies and speculation that impede judicial review.”
“We express no view on the merits of the constitutional and related statutory claims presented,” the opinion said. “We hold only that they are not suitable for adjudication at this time.”…
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“This Supreme Court decision is only about timing, not the merits,” he said in a statement. “This ruling does not authorize President Trump’s goal of excluding undocumented immigrants from the census count used to apportion the House of Representatives.”
“If this policy is ever actually implemented,” Mr. Ho said, “we’ll be right back in court challenging it.”
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The practical effect of the ruling may be limited, because Census Bureau officials have said they may not be able to produce data on unauthorized immigrants before Mr. Trump leaves office. When the case was argued last month, Jeffrey B. Wall, the acting solicitor general, acknowledged the situation was fluid and that the bureau may not be able to identify many unauthorized immigrants.
Removing large numbers of them from the census would most likely have the effect of shifting the allotment of both congressional seats and federal money to states that are older, whiter and typically more Republican….
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The Constitution requires congressional districts to be apportioned “counting the whole number of persons in each state,” using information from the census. In July, Mr. Trump issued a memorandum taking a new approach. “For the purpose of the reapportionment of representatives following the 2020 census,” the memo said, “it is the policy of the United States to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status.”….
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A three-judge panel of the Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled that the new policy violated federal law. Two other courts have issued similar rulings, while one said the dispute was not ripe for consideration.
Note….
This IS ANOTHER attempt by Trump and Republicans take money from Blue states by ‘cooking the books’….