Judge pauses GOP states' lawsuit to limit people in the US illegally from census count
Source: AP
Updated 3:36 PM EST, March 6, 2025
A federal judge agreed Thursday with Trump administration lawyers to put on hold a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general that is attempting to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states after the once-a-decade census.
Lawyers for the Republican administration said new leaders were in the process of filling roles at the U.S. Department of Commerce, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau, and that they have not had time to determine how they want to proceed with the litigation.
The GOP state attorneys from Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio and West Virginia filed the lawsuit against the Commerce Department in the waning days of the Biden administration in January. Since then, the Biden-appointed Census Bureau director has resigned and Trump-nominated Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, replacing Gina Raimondo, a Democrat.
The 14th Amendment states “the whole number of persons in each state” should be counted for the numbers used for apportionment, the process of allocating congressional seats and Electoral College votes among the states, based on population.
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