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TRUMP v. NEW YORK 

BREYER, J., dissenting 

Census Bureau Data 18 (2009) (estimating that as of 2009 
at  least  24  federal  programs  automatically  distributed  at 
least $10 billion in annual funding to States keyed directly 
to the decennial census’s State population figures).  Given 
the connection between the decennial census and funding 
allocation, a change of a few thousand people in a State’s 
enumeration can affect its share of federal resources. 

I  do  not  agree  with  the  Court  that  the  lingering  uncer-
tainty over the Government’s plans renders this litigation 
unripe, nor that the apportionment process is at a “prelim-
inary  stage.”    Ante,  at  5.    For  one  thing,  the  Government 
has spent over a year collecting the administrative records 
that  will  be  used  to  fulfill  the  Presidential  memorandum. 
See Exec. Order No. 13880, 84 Fed. Reg. 33823 (2019) (call-
ing for federal departments to share administrative records
so the Department of Commerce can “generate a more reli-
able count of the unauthorized alien population in the coun-
try . . . [and] an estimate of the aggregate number of aliens
unlawfully present in each State”).  For another, the Gov-
ernment has told us in related litigation that further delays
in  proceeding  with  apportionment  beyond  the  statutory
deadline would harm “the ability to meet contingent redis-
tricting  deadlines”  in  the  States,  because  “ ‘delays  would 
mean deadlines that are established in state constitutions 
or statutes will be impossible to meet.’ ”  See Reply Brief in
Support of Application for Stay Pending Appeal in Ross v. 
National Urban League, O.T. 2020, No. 20A62, p. 11.  Act-
ing  on  that  concern,  we  granted  the  Government’s  stay 
pending  appeal  so  as  to  hasten  the  Government’s  efforts
ahead  of  these  deadlines.  See  Ross  v.  National  Urban 
League,  592  U. S.  ___  (2020).    Presumably,  waiting  to  re-
solve this issue until after the President submits his tabu-
lation will cause further hardship by delaying redistricting 
further.  States will begin to consider the consequences of 
reapportionment  soon.  See,  e.g.,  Del.  Code  Ann.,  Tit.  29, 
§805 (2020) (“After the official reporting of the 2020 federal