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Supreme Court Justices Seem to Split on Adding Citizenship Question to Census

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WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices split on ideological grounds on April 23 during high-stakes oral arguments about the legality of the Trump administration’s decision to ask…
WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices split on ideological grounds on April 23 during high-stakes oral arguments about the legality of the Trump administration’s decision to ask individuals responding to the 2020 Census whether they are U. S. citizens.
The results from the once-a-decade census, which counts both legal and illegal residents of the United States, are important because they are used to allocate federal dollars and determine representation in Congress.
Republicans and Democrats have locked horns for decades over how the census is carried out. Democrats accuse Republicans of scheming to undercount minorities and illegal aliens out of racial animus. Republicans say Democrats try to game the system and use immigration policy to import illegal aliens and new voters to inflate the headcount in order to strengthen their hold over so-called blue states and congressional districts.
The high court agreed on Feb. 15 to accept the case, an appeal of a ruling by Manhattan-based U. S. District Judge Jesse Furman, on an expedited basis because the U. S. Census Bureau needs to print its official questionnaires in the coming months. Furman held that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted in bad faith and that he falsely claimed the citizenship question was needed to gather data to help enforce the Voting Rights Act and that its addition was requested by the Justice Department.
Left-wing activists claim the administration wants to include the question to discourage Latinos and illegal aliens from completing the form, and that this would unfairly influence congressional representation for Democratic-leaning states with large illegal alien populations.

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