SCOTUS Passes on Challenge , to Trump Admin's
Controversial Census Bid.
The Trump Administration memorandum
seeks to exclude undocumented workers
from the census count.
The U.S. Census is used to establish
the number of congressional representatives
for each state in the union.
The greater a state’s population, the more representatives that state is assigned in the U.S. House of Representatives.
435 total seats in the House
are allocated among the states.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court
“expressed no view” on the challenge,
as it believes the dispute is “premature.”.
The challenge was created by several states
and immigrant rights groups.
The three liberal justices on the
Supreme Court had a dissenting opinion.
The decision is not an outright win for Trump,
as it does not authorize the exclusion of
undocumented workers from the census.
Supreme Court analysts referred to the ruling as a "mixed
bag," in which "both the merits of the policy and whether
it will actually be implemented" have yet to be decided