The U.S. Supreme Court, approaching the end of its current term, is due to issue...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court, approaching the end of its current term, is due to issue rulings in the coming days in major cases including the Trump administration’s bid to add a contentious citizenship question to the 2020 census and efforts by voters to curb the partisan manipulation of electoral district boundaries.
Eagerly awaited rulings in legal challenges to the proposed census question and a practice called partisan gerrymandering could have enduring effects on elections for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and state legislatures. The administration has argued that adding a question requiring people participating in the decennial population tally to declare whether they are a citizen is needed to better enforce a voting rights law, a rationale that opponents called a pretext for a political motive.
Boundaries for House districts and those in state legislatures are redrawn every decade to reflect population changes measured by the census. Kennedy, who sometimes sided with the liberal justices on topics such as abortion and gay rights, was replaced by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s second appointee to the court since becoming president in 2017. Kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate in October following allegations of sexual misconduct dating back decades that he denied.
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