Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Over Trump Administration’s Attempt to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants from Census

The Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments on Monday over the Trump administration’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census, the Associated Press reports.

This policy is likely the administration’s latest hard-line immigration approach to reach the court, the AP notes. The administration maintains that the Constitution and federal law allow the president to exclude “illegal aliens” from the count.

“As history, precedents and structure indicate, the President need not treat all illegal aliens as ‘inhabitants’ of states and thus allow their disregard of federal law to skew the distribution. representatives of the people, ”wrote Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall according to the media outlet.

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The administration is hoping the tribunal, which includes three people appointed by Trump, will adopt the idea. However, how the court will rule is not yet known.

Federal courts in New York, California and Maryland have dismissed the president’s ruling as unconstitutional. A Washington, DC court ruled last week that a similar challenge to the plan was premature, the AP notes.

Democrats have argued that Trump’s plan will result in an unfair distribution of seats for political gain.

In most years, census data collection is expected to be completed by December 31, but Congress extended the deadline to April 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Still, Trump demanded the original deadline over the summer.

However, the revelation further complicated the matter. earlier this month that “certain anomalies have been discovered” which would prevent the Census Bureau from meeting the deadline.

The White House is required to send a state-by-state tally to the House next year to move forward with the reassignment. But the president called for a separate count of unauthorized immigrants with the intention of subtracting those numbers from state totals before reporting to the lower house.

Removing unauthorized immigrants from the enumeration could also radically change the way federal funding is allocated to various government departments, bringing more funding from cities to less populated places.