Census Ruling Throws Trump’s Exclusion Plan Into the Dumpster
A federal court on July 31 blocked the Trump administration’s effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to apportion House seats. The ruling undercut one of Trump’s most overtly political and legally aggressive moves of the year, and it did so just as the White House was trying to sell the plan as a clean-fingered defense of the Constitution. Instead, the court treated it like what it was: a rushed and deeply contested attempt to rig a process that is supposed to be boring for a reason.
A federal court on July 31 blocked the Trump administration’s effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to apportion House seats. The ruling undercut one of Trump’s most overtly political and legally aggressive moves of the year, and it did so just as the White House was trying to sell the plan as a clean-fingered defense of the Constitution. Instead, the court treated it like what it was:…
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