Court blocks Trump order to exclude undocumented immigrants from Census count

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

A federal court on Thursday blocked a memorandum signed by President Trump seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census for apportionment saying such action would violate the statute governing congressional apportionment.

A special three-judge panel out of New York wrote that the president’s argument that undocumented immigrants should not be counted runs afoul of a statute saying apportionment must be based on everyone who is a resident of the U.S. The judges found that all residents must be counted for apportionment purposes regardless of their legal status.

The ruling came hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to produce internal documents connected to its sudden decision to end the 2020 Census count a month earlier than the Census Bureau had planned.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh gave the government three days to file all documents and communications between mid-April, when the bureau said it would extend the count to Oct. 31 due to the pandemic, and Aug. 3, when it abruptly said the count would end Sept. 30. By law, the state population totals that will be used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives for the next decade must be delivered to the president by Dec. 31 of the census year.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/trump-census-documents/2020/09/10/6c2bdcce-f3a0-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html

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It's just never-ending. But good. I expect they'll appeal.

[grumpyduck]

1. And I would love nothing more than to find out

that Judge Koh was one of that piece of shit's appointees.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. She was an Obama appointee for her current seat, had been nominated for the Appeals Court

and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee... But then the douchebag Turtle let her nomination expire without a final confirmation vote at the end of 2016 and 45 appointed someone else for the 9th Circuit. So she still has this District Court position.

[grumpyduck]

3. And Douchebag probably sat on it because

he knew she would do her job.

And she did.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. He pretty much blocked almost all of Obama's the nominees that election year

including, as we all know, Merrick Garland.

[SoCalNative]

5. Obama appointee

but it would have been nice if she were one of his.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Great

[thesquanderer]

7. What a stupid idea. Even for Republicans who want to "punish" the undocumented.

If you don't count undocumented immigrants, the state gets less money for schools, hospitals, roads, etc. But the immigrants still use these things. You're not specifically depriving immigrants of anything, you're depriving ALL the residents of the state, i.e. all the ones who "count."