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       The Supreme Court
       By: Kerry Date: June 27, 2019, 11:08 am
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       For now, the Supreme Court said the Trump administration did not
       give an adequate reason for asking people if they were citizens
       when conducting the census.
  HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-blocks-citizenship-question-in-2020-census-for-now/ar-AADvBt5
       The court said the administration's explanation for adding such
       a question is insufficient, and sent it back to the lower courts
       for further consideration. The ruling marks a setback for the
       administration, but the issue is not yet resolved.
       I have a question about this that no one from either side of the
       debate seems to have addressed.  How does the "one man, one
       vote" principle enter into the picture?   Should Congressional
       districts be drawn using the population of only citizens or by
       using both citizens and foreigners?
       If we say they should be drawn including foreigners, we get a
       result reminiscent of the time when slaves were counted as
       two-thirds of a person but couldn't vote.  This is worse since
       the foreigners are counted as full persons but given no vote.
       That means a state with a few rich white people could pass laws
       to encourage lots of foreigners to reside there; and they could
       provide jobs.   Imagine a scenario where two states had the same
       number of citizens, but one state had three times as many
       foreigners than citizens and the other state had no foreigners.
       In this scenario, one state would have four times as many
       people counted in the census, so they would receive four times
       as many members in Congress.   Some people's votes would matter
       four times more than other people's.
       That would work well for states like California and Texas.
       States with fewer foreigners get fewer members in Congress.
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