State and local officials sue Trump over census order

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TheHill.com
State and local officials sue Trump over census order
By Harper Neidig - 07/24/20 04:41 PM EDT


A coalition of state and local officials sued President Trump and his administration Friday over an executive action that would exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census.

The lawsuit, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleges that the order "unequivocally" violates the Constitution's directions for conducting the census.

"If Defendants succeed in excluding undocumented immigrants from apportionment, some Plaintiffs will suffer severe injury to their most basic rights under our Constitution’s representational form of government: they will improperly lose one or more Members in the House of Representatives and one or more corresponding electors in the Electoral College," the complaint reads.

"And removing undocumented immigrants from the apportionment base will further harm Plaintiffs by, for example, undermining their ability to conduct congressional and state-level redistricting, depriving them of critical federal funding, and eroding the quality of census data on which they rely to perform essential government functions."

New York was joined by 19 other states, Washington, D.C., and more than a dozen cities and states. The coalition includes Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, as well as Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/508951-state-and-local-officials-sue-trump-over-census-order

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1. Quick Question:

How would the Trump Administration even accurately count "undocumented immigrants to begin with? The Census didn't ask "How many undocumented immigrants are living in your home?" If they're undocumented, they're flying under the radar. The best that can be expected is estimates, not an accurate count. Therefore, how could congressional districts for 2020 be based on anything but an accurate count of residents? I live in a town with a huge demographic of immigrants and I couldn't tell you who's naturalized and who is undocumented and that includes my neighbors.