A federal court in Washington, D.C., has tossed out a lawsuit filed against President Trump’s efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from a key set of census numbers.
The ruling, by a three-judge panel of mostly Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday, disposes of one of multiple such suits. It comes days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Nov. 30 for a similar, New York-based case, about whether the president can leave unauthorized immigrants out of the 2020 census counts used to determine each state’s share of congressional seats and Electoral College votes for the next decade.
The high court’s decision on that question is expected to be the one that counts.
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