“Federal Court Rejects Trump’s Order to Exclude Undocumented From Census; A three-judge panel unanimously said President Trump lacked the authority to remove noncitizens from census counts used to allot House seats”: Michael Wines of The New York Times has this report.
Tara Bahrampour of The Washington Post reports that “Court blocks Trump order to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count.”
Paul Overberg of The Wall Street Journal reports that “2020 Census Must Count Illegal Immigrants When Allocating House Seats, Judges Rule; Decision blocks President Trump’s plan to exclude those not in U.S. legally.”
Savannah Behrmann of USA Today reports that “Court blocks Trump order to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count.”
Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Federal judges block Trump’s exclusion of illegal immigrants in Census count.”
Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Court knocks down Trump attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from census.”
Mike Schneider of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Judges: Trump can’t exclude people from district drawings.”
Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “U.S. judges reject Trump plan to exclude many immigrants from representation.”
Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News reports that “Trump Barred From Omitting Undocumented Immigrants in Census.”
Dareh Gregorian of NBC News reports that “Federal judges rule Trump can’t exclude people in U.S. illegally from congressional redistricting; President Donald Trump’s executive order that excludes people in country illegally from the census violates the law, the three-judge panel ruled.”
Gregory Wallace of CNN reports that “Federal court blocks Trump plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count used to allocate seats in Congress.”
Michael Ruiz and Bill Mears of Fox News report that “Federal appeals court strikes down Trump administration policy on keeping undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census.” The headline is in error, as a three-judge U.S. District Court issued the ruling (although two of the three judges were federal appellate judges).
Rebecca Rainey and Matthew Choi of Politico report that “Federal judges block Trump census order on undocumented immigrants; The challenge by the ACLU argued that the change could cause some states to lose seats in Congress if undocumented immigrants weren’t included in apportionment counts.”
Harper Neidig of Politico reports that “Court blocks Trump order to exclude undocumented immigrants from census.”
Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “Judges Blocked The Trump Administration From Excluding Undocumented Immigrants From The Census Count; It was ‘not particularly close or complicated’ that Trump violated federal law with his latest presidential order related to the census, a special three-judge panel found.”
And on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Hansi Lo Wang had an audio segment titled “Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt To Change Who Counts For Allocating House Seats.”
You can access today’s per curiam ruling of a unanimous three-judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York at this link.
Posted at 9:30 PM by Howard Bashman
