{"id":19582,"date":"2020-12-18T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/?post_type=work&#038;p=19582"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:16:39","slug":"karaniwang-dahilan-v-trump-census","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/work\/common-cause-v-trump-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause v. Trump (Census)"},"template":"","class_list":["post-19582","work","type-work","status-publish","hentry","work_type-litigation"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"In 2020, Common Cause sued former President Trump for unconstitutionally depriving immigrant communities from equal representation in Congress.","featured_image":"","work_type":157,"related_issues":[138,103,2066],"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h3>Mga Pinakabagong Update<\/h3>\r\nNoong Nobyembre 25, 2020, ang US District Court para sa District of Columbia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-1125-Common-Cause-v.-Trump-district-court-order.pdf\">tumangging mamuno sa mga merito ng kasong ito<\/a>, stating that it is not yet ripe for a decision because the precise manner in which the Trump Administration will implement its discriminatory policy is not yet known.\r\n\r\nOn December 18, 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/20-366_7647.pdf\">umabot ng katulad na konklusyon<\/a>\u00a0sa Trump v. New York, ibang hamon sa memo ng pangulo, ang paghahanap ng mga isyu sa parehong pagkahinog at katayuan ay humadlang sa Korte na hatulan ang mga merito.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/media\/ibinasura-ng-korte-suprema-sa-amin-ang-census-apportionment-case\/\">Basahin ang press release ng Common Cause kasunod ng pagpapaalis ng Korte Suprema kay Trump v. New York<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nGayunpaman, hindi magkakabisa ang patakaran sa discriminatory exclusion ng Trump Administration. Hindi nakumpleto ng Census Bureau ang pagproseso ng data na ginamit para sa paghahati bago matapos ang termino ni Pangulong Trump noong Enero 20, 2021, at hindi inaasahang kumpletuhin ang mga bilang ng paghahati nito hanggang\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2021\/statement-apportionment-counts.html\">Abril 30, 2021\u00a0<\/a>. Sa kanyang unang araw sa panunungkulan, si Pangulong Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/20\/executive-order-ensuring-a-lawful-and-accurate-enumeration-and-apportionment-pursuant-to-decennial-census\/\">nilagdaan ang isang executive order<\/a>\u00a0pagpapawalang-bisa sa memo ng Trump Administration at pagpapatibay sa pagbibilang ng lahat ng mga naninirahan sa bawat estado, anuman ang katayuan sa imigrasyon.\r\n<h3>Ang aming Legal na Argumento<\/h3>\r\nNoong Hulyo 21, 2020, si Pangulong Donald Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/presidential-actions\/memorandum-excluding-illegal-aliens-apportionment-base-following-2020-census\/\">naglabas ng memo<\/a> describing his administration\u2019s intent to implement a discriminatory and unconstitutional policy regarding the census. This memo directed the Secretary of Commerce to provide the President with the information necessary to exclude undocumented people from being counted in upcoming congressional seat allocations.\r\n\r\nOn July 23, 2020, Common Cause sued the\u00a0President in the U.S.\u00a0District\u00a0Court for the District of Columbia. We and our co-plaintiffs challenged this transparent effort to deprive cities and communities with large immigrant populations of equal representation in Congress and to threaten their ability to access federal resources\u00a0that\u00a0rely\u00a0on census data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cc-v-trump-2nd-amended.pdf\">Basahin ang reklamo dito.<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe plain language of the law makes it clear that the Trump Administration\u2019s order is illegal.\u00a0The 14th Amendment requires that the \u201cwhole number of persons in each state\u201d be used to determine the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives, and federal law requires that the Secretary of Commerce send to the President the \u201ctabulation of total population by states\u201d and for the President to then send to Congress a statement showing the \u201cwhole number of persons\u201d in each state.\r\n\r\nOral arguments in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M_KHcsYFRlQ\">naganap noong Setyembre 29, 2020<\/a>. Ang Hukuman ng Distrito\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-1125-Common-Cause-v.-Trump-district-court-order.pdf\">pinasiyahan noong Nobyembre 25, 2020<\/a>\u00a0na ang kaso ay hindi pa hinog para sa isang desisyon dahil hindi malinaw kung paano eksaktong ipapatupad ng Trump Administration ang memo.\r\n<h3>Mga Nagsasakdal Mula sa Buong Bansa<\/h3>\r\nBilang karagdagan sa Common Cause, kasama sa mga nagsasakdal ng gobyerno ang mga lungsod ng Atlanta (GA), Clarkston (GA), Dayton (OH), El Paso (TX), Paterson (NJ), Portland (OR), South Pasadena (CA), at El Monte Union High School District (CA). Kasama sa mga nagsasakdal sa organisasyon ang\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panasd.org\/\">Pakikipagtulungan para sa Pagsulong ng mga Bagong Amerikano,<\/a>\u00a0ang\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicpolicy.com\/\">Sentro para sa Patakaran sa Sibiko,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masany.org\/\">Masa,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.njcitizenaction.org\/\">Aksyon ng Mamamayan ng New Jersey,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nmafc.org\/\">New Mexico Asian Family Center<\/a>, at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.organizenm.org\/\">New Mexico Comunidades en Acci\u00f3n y de F\u00e9<\/a>. There were also 24 individual plaintiffs from California, Florida, New Jersey, and Texas\u00a0who would have faced diminished\u00a0representational rights and suffered vote dilution\u00a0if the President\u2019s Executive Order was implemented.\r\n\r\nPlaintiffs sought an injunction to block this unconstitutional order, and to require the President to include all people within a state, regardless of immigration status, for the purpose of congressional apportionment.\r\n<h3>Legal na Koponan<\/h3>\r\nAng mga nagsasakdal ay kinatawan ni Emmet J. Bondurant ng Bondurant Mixson &amp; Elmore LLP; Gregory L. Diskant, Daniel S. Ruzumna, Aron Fischer, at Jonah M. Knobler ng Patterson Belknap Webb &amp; Tyler LLP; at Michael B. 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