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Eugene

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Sat Nov 28, 2020, 08:47 PM Nov 2020

High court takes up census case, as other count issues loom

Source: Associated Press

High court takes up census case, as other count issues loom

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and MARK SHERMAN
November 28, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to divvy up congressional seats is headed for a post-Thanksgiving Supreme Court showdown.

The administration’s top lawyers are hoping the justices on a court that includes three Trump appointees will embrace the idea, rejected repeatedly by lower courts. It’s the latest, and likely the last, Trump administration hard-line approach to immigration issues to reach the high court. Arguments will take place on Monday by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Even as the justices weigh a bid to remove, for the first time, millions of noncitizens from the population count that determines how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives as well as the allocation of some federal funding, experts say other issues loom large for the 2020 census as it heads into unchartered territory over deadlines, data quality and politics.

A host of novel questions outside of the court’s eventual decision could determine the final product of the nation’s once-a-decade head count, including whether the incoming Biden administration would do anything to try to reverse decisions made under Trump.

Among other questions: Will the Census Bureau be able to meet a year-end deadline for turning in the numbers used for apportionment, the process of dividing up congressional seats among the states? Will the quality of the census data be hurt by a shortened schedule, a pandemic and natural disasters? Could a Democratic-controlled House reject the numbers from the Republican administration if House leaders believe they are flawed? Will a lame-duck Senate pass legislation that could extend deadlines for turning in census numbers?

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-census-2020-us-supreme-court-courts-b1dd5b34583cb2d276d939aa3edce2b7

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High court takes up census case, as other count issues loom (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2020 OP
There wasn't a citizenship question on the CENSUS so I'm not sure how they could remove just them. Phoenix61 Nov 2020 #1

Phoenix61

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1. There wasn't a citizenship question on the CENSUS so I'm not sure how they could remove just them.
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 09:39 PM
Nov 2020

They'd have to redo the CENSUS and considering how rushed it was that's not a bad idea.

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