Alabama Congressmen support exclusion of illegal aliens from congressional apportionment

submitted by Nemacolin from yellowhammernews.com

all 1 comments
sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Simply an Attack on the Constitution.

Four prominent Alabama Republicans on Friday went to bat for the Trump administration’s effort to only count legal American residents when apportioning congressional seats after the 2020 Census is over.

U.S. Representatives Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville), Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) and Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) along with Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall were behind respective amicus briefs filed with the Supreme Court supporting the president.

Brooks, Byrne and Aderholt filed one brief together, and Marshall filed his own.

The legal question the four officials center their briefs on is whether the president can lawfully exclude illegal aliens from the count of people that determines how many seats each state gets in the U.S. House of Representatives.