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    could also cost them that house seat they picked up after 2020 census, since redistricting is based on census data–and the census counts persons not ‘citizens’.

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        Okay, let’s say that they only counted citizens, and the questions on the census reflected that. Texas and Florida would both lose representatives, since those states have larger undocumented immigrant populations. So I don’t know why they would want to do that.

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        selectively ignoring parts of the constitution is what they do.