In response to a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general, voters from California and Texas are seeking to intervene, arguing that excluding undocumented immigrants from apportionment would harm their state's congressional representation. The discriminatory suit, launched against the backdrop of earlier attempts by former President Trump to alter census practices, contradicts the 14th Amendment, which stipulates that all residents should be counted for congressional seat allocation. These voters assert that the lawsuit undermines democratic representation, signaling the ongoing political battles over immigration and representation in the U.S.
The 14th Amendment states that the whole number of persons in each state should be counted for the numbers used for apportionment, the process of allocating congressional seats and Electoral College votes among the states, based on population.
The lawsuit filed more than a week ago by the GOP attorneys general of Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio and West Virginia seeks to exclude people in the country illegally or temporarily from the numbers used to apportion congressional seats after each once-a-decade census.
During his first term, President Donald Trump signed an order that would have excluded people in the U.S. illegally from being included in the 2020 census numbers used to allot congressional seats.
The voters from California and Texas said in their motion that the 14th Amendment was as clear as can be that apportionment should be based on the count of all residents.
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