The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the federal government may remove illegal aliens from the 2020 Census count, which eliminates population from the process of allocating congressional seats and Electoral College votes that officially determine the presidency.
This is massive news, and yet another win in the courts from the Trump campaign and conservatives.
The 6-3 decision in Trump v. New York issued December 18th is a massive victory for the Administration.
Placed on a judicial fast track because various census-related deadlines are nearing, oral argument took place telephonically before the nine justices on Nov. 30.
The Trump administration wanted illegal aliens removed from the decennial census count to prevent them from having an impact on the apportionment of political power among the states.
States and local governments, including so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, which refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials, sued to prevent the administration’s plan from moving forward. They argued that President Donald Trump, a Republican, was attempting to interfere with the count and prevent Democratic-leaning areas with large illegal-alien populations from gaining congressional seats.
But the high court found that their challenge was premature because they could not demonstrate any so-called concrete injury they might suffer. The ruling apparently leaves open the possibility of further challenges in the future and acknowledges the Trump administration may have difficulty implementing its policy.
“At present, this case is riddled with contingencies and speculation that impede judicial review,” the court stated in the unsigned opinion.
“The President, to be sure, has made clear his desire to exclude aliens without lawful status from the apportionment base. But the President qualified his directive by providing that” information should be gathered “to the extent practicable” and that aliens should be excluded “to the extent feasible,” quoting federal regulations.
“Any prediction how the Executive Branch might eventually implement this general statement of policy is “no more than conjecture” at this time,” the court stated citing Los Angeles v. Lyons (1983).
“To begin with, the policy may not prove feasible to implement in any manner whatsoever, let alone in a manner substantially likely to harm any of the plaintiffs here. Pre-apportionment litigation always ‘presents a moving target’ because” the administration “may make (and the President may direct) changes to the census up until the President transmits his statement to the House.”
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Patriot Matt Couch: You blew it on your interpretation of this ruling, I’m sorry to tell you : Illegal aliens and the census was not an issue that the Administration had asked to be answered when it took the census case to the Supreme Court this term, after a federal judge in New York City barred the citizenship question based upon federal laws (rejecting a constitutional challenge by those protesting that question). what really happened was that Supreme Court threw out the challenge to Trump census plan to exclude undocumented immigrants, leaving the ruling of the Federal judge in NY… Read more »