Justices to weigh Trump census plan to exclude noncitizens
4 years, 2 months ago

Justices to weigh Trump census plan to exclude noncitizens

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up President Donald Trump’s policy, blocked by a lower court, to exclude people living in the U.S. illegally from the census count that will be used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. Trump’s high court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, could take part in the case if, as seems likely, she is confirmed by then. The Supreme Court rejected his attempt last year and should do so again,” said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Dale Ho, representing a coalition of immigrant advocacy groups that challenged Trump’s plan in court. The administration told the court that the president retains “discretion to exclude illegal aliens from the apportionment based on their immigration status.” Trump’s violation of federal law is “not particularly close or complicated,” the ACLU said in a court filing arguing that the court shouldn’t hear the case.

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Trump's Immigration Plan: A Mass Deportation and Travel Ban Odyssey
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump's Immigration Plan: A Mass Deportation and Travel Ban Odyssey

Live Mint  

Trump proposes a range of policies aimed at restricting and controlling immigration, including reinstating the Remain in Mexico program, implementing travel bans on specific countries or ideologies, and launching the largest deportation effort in U.S. history. Trump also pledges to end automatic citizenship for children born to immigrants illegally and to impose stricter border security measures, including building a wall …

Republicans renew push to exclude noncitizens from the census that helps determine political power
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans renew push to exclude noncitizens from the census that helps determine political power

Associated Press  

Some Republicans in Congress are pushing to require a citizenship question on the questionnaire for the once-a-decade census and exclude people who aren’t citizens from the count that helps determine political power in the United States. of getting every single possible advantage when the country is so closely divided.” The 14th Amendment requires that congressional seats be distributed among the …

Here's how a Trump immunity win could blow up spectacularly in the Supreme Court's face
1 year ago

Here's how a Trump immunity win could blow up spectacularly in the Supreme Court's face

Raw Story  

If the Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments on whether Donald Trump should be immune from criminal acts — and then rules in the former president's favor — those same justices may one day rue the day they made that decision, an expert wrote Monday. A decision in Trump's favor by the predominantly conservative court, broadly read, would present a …

New Census director has faith in quality of 2020 numbers
2 years, 10 months ago

New Census director has faith in quality of 2020 numbers

Associated Press  

The new U.S. Census Bureau director said Monday that he is listening to the concerns of data users and policymakers, and the agency is making permanent community outreach efforts, in an effort to restore any trust that was lost following attempts by the Trump administration to politicize the nation’s 2020 head count. Despite those attempts and obstacles created by the …

Citizenship data is latest rollback of Trump census efforts
3 years, 11 months ago

Citizenship data is latest rollback of Trump census efforts

Associated Press  

The U.S. Census Bureau is suspending efforts to create neighborhood-level statistics on the citizenship and age of residents, using 2020 census data, in the latest rollback of Trump administration census-related initiatives that critics feared would be used to favor Republicans and whites during the drawing of state and local districts. As part of an order President Joe Biden signed Wednesday …

Biden Ends Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden Ends Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted

NPR  

Biden Ends Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted Enlarge this image toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images Updated at 9:44 p.m. ET One of President Biden's first executive actions has reversed former President Donald Trump's unprecedented policy of altering a key census count by excluding …

High court rules challenge to Trump census plan is premature
4 years ago

High court rules challenge to Trump census plan is premature

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives. The court’s decision Friday, led by its conservative justices, is not a final ruling on the matter and, while it allows …

Supreme Court Rules Challenge To Trump's Census Plan Is Premature
4 years ago

Supreme Court Rules Challenge To Trump's Census Plan Is Premature

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states’ seats in the House of Representatives. But the court’s decision Friday is not a final ruling on the matter and it’s not clear whether Trump …

Supreme Court Punts Census Case, Giving Trump An Iffy Chance To Alter Numbers
4 years ago

Supreme Court Punts Census Case, Giving Trump An Iffy Chance To Alter Numbers

NPR  

Supreme Court Punts Census Case, Giving Trump An Iffy Chance To Alter Numbers Enlarge this image toggle caption Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images Updated at 6:06 p.m. ET The U.S. Supreme Court ducked a direct ruling Friday on whether President Trump can exclude undocumented immigrants from a key census count. At issue in the case …

Flaws in US census count jeopardise Trump's plan to exclude illegal immigrants from congressional reapportionment
4 years ago

Flaws in US census count jeopardise Trump's plan to exclude illegal immigrants from congressional reapportionment

Firstpost  

The move, unprecedented in American history, would produce an older, whiter, more rural population base for reallocating House seats that would mostly benefit Republicans, analysts say Washington: Census Bureau experts have uncovered serious flaws in a section of the 2020 headcount that potentially affect the enumeration of millions, according to people familiar with the census operations, delaying still further the …

Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump’s census plan
4 years ago

Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump’s census plan

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sounded skeptical Monday that President Donald Trump could categorically exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot seats among the states in the House of Representatives. One possibility outlined by acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, Trump’s top Supreme Court lawyer, is that Trump might try to leave out of …

Supreme Court conservatives hint at ducking ruling on legality of Trump plan to cut undocumented immigrants from Census
4 years ago

Supreme Court conservatives hint at ducking ruling on legality of Trump plan to cut undocumented immigrants from Census

CNN  

CNN — Several conservative justices on Monday seemed to suggest they could avoid immediately ruling on whether President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted when seats in Congress are divvied up between the states next year is lawful. He said that the challengers and the government would be “right back here.” It’s the second time in …

Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump’s bid to exclude from census immigrants in U.S. illegally
4 years ago

Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump’s bid to exclude from census immigrants in U.S. illegally

LA Times  

President Trump’s plan to exclude millions of immigrants in the country illegally from the 2020 census count appeared to fizzle at the Supreme Court on Monday. But none of the justices sounded prepared to endorse Trump’s policy, and two of Trump’s appointees — Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — told an administration lawyer they doubted the legality …

Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Trump's Push To Alter A Key Census Count
4 years ago

Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Trump's Push To Alter A Key Census Count

NPR  

Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Trump's Push To Alter A Key Census Count Enlarge this image toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images A federal court in Washington, D.C., has tossed out a lawsuit filed against President Trump's efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from a key set of census numbers. It …

2nd Court Blocks Trump's Push To Alter Census Ahead Of Supreme Court Review
4 years, 2 months ago

2nd Court Blocks Trump's Push To Alter Census Ahead Of Supreme Court Review

NPR  

2nd Court Blocks Trump's Push To Alter Census Ahead Of Supreme Court Review Enlarge this image toggle caption Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Updated Friday at 10:04 a.m. Last month, that court ruled against a memo issued by President Trump that calls for excluding unauthorized immigrants from the numbers used for …

Supreme Court Speeds Up Case On Trump's Push To Alter Census For House Seats
4 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court Speeds Up Case On Trump's Push To Alter Census For House Seats

NPR  

Supreme Court Speeds Up Case On Trump's Push To Alter Census For House Seats Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Updated at 7:32 p.m. ET The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to a speedy review of President Trump's attempt to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers used to reallocate seats …

US top court to hear Trump bid to exclude noncitizens from census
4 years, 2 months ago

US top court to hear Trump bid to exclude noncitizens from census

Al Jazeera  

The census, conducted every 10 years, determines how seats in the US House of Representatives are allocated. The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from a countrywide population count that determines how congressional seats are allocated. The Supreme Court rejected his attempt last year and should do …

US Supreme Court halts census in latest legal twist
4 years, 2 months ago

US Supreme Court halts census in latest legal twist

Al Jazeera  

The ruling allows the Census Bureau to wind down the counting of the 2020 US population a month earlier than originally planned in a blow to civil rights groups. The Trump administration argued that the headcount needed to end immediately so that the Census Bureau had enough time to crunch the numbers before a congressionally mandated year-end deadline for turning …

'Can't Allow Fearmongering': US Court Rejects Trump Bid to Exclude Illegal Immigrants From Census
4 years, 3 months ago

'Can't Allow Fearmongering': US Court Rejects Trump Bid to Exclude Illegal Immigrants From Census

News 18  

A federal court in New York on Thursday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump to exclude undocumented migrants from the US census, a setback for the president who has long touted his fight against illegal immigration. Prosecutors in many states, including New York, quickly challenged the government’s right to give such an order in court, amid fears it would …

US court rejects Trump plan to leave many immigrants off census
4 years, 3 months ago

US court rejects Trump plan to leave many immigrants off census

Al Jazeera  

US President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop undocumented immigrants from being counted is unlawful, court says. A United States court has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to prevent undocumented immigrants from being counted in the US census, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday, hailing the decision as a “huge victory”. In its decision, the US District Court in New …

Court Blocks Trump's Attempt To Change Who Counts For Allocating House Seats
4 years, 3 months ago

Court Blocks Trump's Attempt To Change Who Counts For Allocating House Seats

NPR  

Court Blocks Trump's Attempt To Change Who Counts For Allocating House Seats Enlarge this image toggle caption Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Updated at 11:25 p.m. Sponsor Message Since the first U.S. census in 1790, the country's official once-a-decade population numbers used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives have …

Census count to be cut short and exclude undocumented immigrants under possibly illegal Trump order
4 years, 4 months ago

Census count to be cut short and exclude undocumented immigrants under possibly illegal Trump order

Salon  

The Census Bureau revealed Monday that it will stop collecting data one month earlier than planned as it works to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment under President Donald Trump's legally dubious order. He also said the bureau "continues to work on meeting the requirements" of two orders issued by Trump: a July 2019 executive order instructing government agencies to …

Trump Sued Over Attempt To Omit Unauthorized Immigrants From A Key Census Count
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump Sued Over Attempt To Omit Unauthorized Immigrants From A Key Census Count

NPR  

Trump Sued Over Attempt To Omit Unauthorized Immigrants From A Key Census Count Enlarge this image toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP J. Scott Applewhite/AP Updated at 9:15 p.m. In this week's third complaint, which also cites NPR's reporting, immigrant rights groups represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union argue that the directives of Trump's …

Trump tries new move to restrict census, could cut California’s seats in Congress
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump tries new move to restrict census, could cut California’s seats in Congress

LA Times  

President Trump on Tuesday directed his administration to exclude immigrants who are in the country illegally when calculating how many seats in Congress each state gets after the current census, a decision that critics denounced as unconstitutional and one that will likely face a swift court challenge. “As hundreds of Americans die each day from the COVID-19 virus, and thousands …

With No Final Say, Trump Wants To Change Who Counts For Dividing Up Congress' Seats
4 years, 5 months ago

With No Final Say, Trump Wants To Change Who Counts For Dividing Up Congress' Seats

NPR  

With No Final Say, Trump Wants To Change Who Counts For Dividing Up Congress' Seats Enlarge this image toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images Alex Wong/Getty Images Updated at 6:34 p.m. The memo instructs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Commerce Department, to include in the legally required report of census results to the president "information permitting the President, to …

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