WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court enters its final week of decisions with two politically charged issues unresolved, whether to rein in political line-drawing for partisan gain and allow a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Decisions that break along the court’s political and ideological divide are more likely to generate criticism of the court as yet another political institution. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWThe Supreme Court has never invalidated districts on partisan grounds, but the court has kept the door open to these claims. In the census case, the Census Bureau’s own experts say that Hispanics and other immigrants are likely to be undercounted if the census questionnaire asks everyone about their citizenship status. The last time the question appeared on the once-a-decade census was in 1950, and even then it wasn’t asked of everyone.

Source: thestar June 23, 2019 12:11 UTC