Why it matters:
Undocumented and documented immigrants will be unlikely to answer the census call for fear of reprisal (using collected information and forwarding to ICE). This would in turn affect all benefits that rely on the census and are population driven, from House of representative appointments, to federal grants on infrastructure, aid, disaster relief, medicaid, etc... States that could be impacted include California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, NY, Florida. That's without accounting for cities which may be densely populated by immigrants and further impacted.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/07/kavanaugh-supreme-court-first-case-880193
Kavanaugh’s first vote could be in Trump executive power fight
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first vote as a member of the Supreme Court could come as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday on a Trump administration request testing how much power courts should wield over top executive branch officials.
The administration has already made one unsuccessful run at the high court on the issue: It asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week to step in to block depositions of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Justice Department civil rights chief John Gore in lawsuits challenging Ross’ decision to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 U.S. Census.
Undocumented and documented immigrants will be unlikely to answer the census call for fear of reprisal (using collected information and forwarding to ICE). This would in turn affect all benefits that rely on the census and are population driven, from House of representative appointments, to federal grants on infrastructure, aid, disaster relief, medicaid, etc... States that could be impacted include California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, NY, Florida. That's without accounting for cities which may be densely populated by immigrants and further impacted.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/07/kavanaugh-supreme-court-first-case-880193
Kavanaugh’s first vote could be in Trump executive power fight
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first vote as a member of the Supreme Court could come as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday on a Trump administration request testing how much power courts should wield over top executive branch officials.
The administration has already made one unsuccessful run at the high court on the issue: It asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week to step in to block depositions of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Justice Department civil rights chief John Gore in lawsuits challenging Ross’ decision to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 U.S. Census.
