'U.S. citizenship is important; it’s not just a 'piece of paper.' It represents full inclusion in this society and is something immigrants should be encouraged to aspire to,' via latimesopinion.
— could help states that “may want to draw state and local legislative districts based upon the voter-eligible population.”
That, of course, isn’t the reason the administration cited for wanting to include a citizenship question: It had claimed that it needed data about citizenship in order to enforce the Voting Rights Act. Last month theBut using citizenship data for redistricting would serve what critics long have argued was the administration’s overriding objective: to help Republicans and hurt Democrats.
But the GOP would also be helped by the idea floated by Trump on Thursday: drawing district lines on the basis of the “voter-eligible population.”from Texas, the Supreme Court ruled that states don’t violate the Constitution or the principle of “one person, one vote” when they use total population — including children and noncitizens who aren’t eligible to vote — as the basis for legislative redistricting.
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