A court has blocked President Trump’s attempt to omit unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers used to determine House seats.
by President Trump that directs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, to provide Trump with information needed to exclude immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization from the apportionment count.
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 included both U.S. citizens and noncitizens, regardless of immigration status. Enacted after the Civil War,ended the counting of an enslaved person as"three fifths" of a free person by requiring the counting of the"whole number of persons in each state.
The president ultimately plays a limited role in reapportioning Congress. After the president hands off the latest numbers to Congress, it is the clerk of the House of Representatives who is supposed to send to the governors a"certificate of the number of Representatives" each state receives, according toTrump's memorandum has sparked a total of eight legal challenges around the country.
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