The U.S. Supreme Court is due to issue eagerly awaited decisions on Thursday in ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is due to issue eagerly awaited decisions on Thursday in cases on the Trump administration’s attempt to add a contentious citizenship question to the 2020 census and bids by voters to stem the partisan manipulation of electoral district boundaries, a practice called gerrymandering.
The political consequences arising from the rulings in legal challenges to the census question and partisan gerrymandering could be significant, leaving lasting effects on elections for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and state legislatures at a time of political polarization in America. A group of states including New York and immigrant rights organizations challenged the legality of the citizenship question. Evidence that surfaced in May bolstered their claim that the citizenship question was aimed at furthering Republican Party political goals.
The Trump administration has said it planned to add the question to gather better data to enforce the Voting Rights Act, which protects eligible voters from discrimination. Hofeller suggested that rationale in the newly disclosed documents. The challengers have said that rationale is a merely pretext to hide a political motive.
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