WASHINGTON – Controversial Trump administration policies on the census, asylum seekers and the border wall, held illegal by lower courts, are on the Supreme Court's agenda Friday.The most pressing case before the justices when they meet privately, and by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic, involves the census.
They are considering the Trump administration's appeal to be allowed to exclude people living in the U.S. illegally from the population count that will be used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives — and by extension the Electoral College — among the states for the next 10 years.The administration wants the court to hear arguments in December and decide the case before Trump's Jan.