Since the election, we've all (admit it!) been snorting and chortling over the goofy lawsuits brought by Trump's legal team to get the election results overturned. No evidence! Unconstitutional request! Logical holes so egregious that Priscilla, Queen of the Desert could drive through them with the freak flag flying high!
Turns out liberals can do that too. In a hugely important case centering on whether to include undocumented immigrants in Census results, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups tried to block Trump's plan to leave out of the Census results the millions of undocumented people who work and live in the US of A.
The conservative justices said that the implications and possible results of inclusion versus exclusion just weren't spelled out clearly enough in the suit.
Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor, the three liberal justices, wrote that the issue is too important for the Court to pass up the case.
They got outvoted. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. That leaves the issue unsettled in the very teeth of redistricting.
Many or most of WRP's members will see Trump's effort to exclude undocumented immigrants as a blatantly unconstitutional effort to deny federal funding to states that allow them to live in peace within their borders. After all, the Constitution says they're supposed to count "the whole number of persons in each State."
Trump notes that including the undocumented would give an unnamed state (whisper: California) two or three more Congressional seats during redistricting. Can't have that, can we?
It seems that Trump wants to punish liberal states for tolerating illegal residents -- and especially for giving them benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid.
The ACLU says it's barely begun to fight.
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