Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump plan to cut undocumented immigrants from Census
(CNN)The Supreme Court on Monday will return and take up another of President Donald Trump's immigration-related policies as it considers the attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the Census totals when seats in Congress are divvied up between the states next year.
It's the second time in two terms that the justices will take on the 2020 Census, having previously blocked Trump's attempt to add a citizenship question.
If Trump succeeds in the new case, it could mark the first time that the United States excludes undocumented immigrants when it counts individuals so that seats in the US House of Representatives can be apportioned and also will impact the distribution of federal funds.
"The 2020 Census is about power and money," said Thomas Wolf, senior counsel for the Brennan Center.
"These numbers will determine how seats in Congress are split up over the next 10 years which will determine the political power that communities will have for the next decade and will determine whether they receive their fair share of the $1.5 trillion that is annually distributed by the federal government," Wolf added.
Trump's efforts are complicated by the fact that Census officials have indicated that they are having difficulties processing census responses to produce the final count. If the numbers are transferred to the President after inauguration day on January 20, Trump's initiative is unlikely to be executed by the Biden administration and the case may be moot.
The Constitution provides that representatives "shall be apportioned" among the states counting the "whole number of persons in each State" every 10 years.
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