Three lower courts have already blocked the proposal, finding it would discourage immigrants from being counted
The supreme court’s conservative majority seemed ready on Tuesday to uphold the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, despite evidence that millions of Hispanic people and immigrants could go uncounted. The case could affect American elections for the next decade.
There appeared to be a clear divide between the court’s liberal and conservative justices in arguments in the case, which could affect how many House seats states have and their share of federal dollars. States with a large number of immigrants tend to vote Democratic.
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