In a ruling Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court order that blocked the Trump Administration from changing how the census is tallied when it comes to allocating political power.

The plan, outlined in President Trump's apportionment memo released this summer, would in practice delete the 2020 Census responses of people living in the U.S. without legal immigration status from state population totals. That matters because those totals are used to divvy up seats in Congress.

<p><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-366_7647.pdf" data-stringify-link="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-366_7647.pdf" data-sk="tooltip_parent">In a ruling Friday</a>, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court order that blocked the Trump Administration from changing how the census is tallied when it comes to allocating political power.</p>
<p>The plan, outlined in President Trump's <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-excluding-illegal-aliens-apportionment-base-following-2020-census/">apportionment memo</a> released this summer, would in practice delete the 2020 Census responses of people living in the U.S. without legal immigration status from state population totals. That matters because those totals are used to divvy up seats in Congress.</p>

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