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In a case challenging New Hampshire’s school-funding scheme, the State has asked the New Hampshire Supreme Court to overturn decades of precedent recognizing a state constitutional right to an adequate education. The ACLU’s State Supreme Court Initiative, the ACLU of New Hampshire, and the National Education Association-New Hampshire filed an amicus brief urging the Court to uphold these precedents and preserve the state constitutional right to an adequate education.

The Census Bureau has proposed rules for the 2030 Census that would remove millions of noncitizens from the population count used to divide congressional seats among the states. This includes many noncitizens living in the United States lawfully. The rules would also change where everyone else is counted and bar the census from asking about race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The Constitution requires counting the “whole number of persons in each State,” and every census since 1790 has counted people where they live, regardless of citizenship. The proposal would distort political representation, weaken the count’s accuracy, and eliminate data needed to enforce the Voting Rights Act and other civil rights laws. The ALCU is urging the Bureau to withdraw the rule entirely.