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Hansi Luwong, NPR News, Washington.

How many U.S.

House seats and Electoral College votes each state gets for a decade is determined using a census count.

The 14th Amendment requires that count to include the, quote, whole number of persons in each state.

But the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee has advanced a bill that calls for excluding people living in the states without U.S.

citizenship, such as green card holders.

During the last Congress, a similar bill passed the Republican-controlled House but never got a Senate vote.

The current bill is making its way to a possible House floor vote months after President Trump put out a social media call for a, quote, new census that excludes people living in the states without legal status.

That kind of change would be unprecedented in U.S.

history and likely be challenged in court.

Hansi Luwong, NPR News, Washington.

That court found the map's challenges are likely to prove in a trial that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

It's because multiples have Republican lawmakers made public statements suggesting they passed it to eliminate existing districts where black and Latino voters together make up the majority.

But in Texas's appeal to the Supreme Court, the state claims that lawmakers were not motivated by race and focused instead on drawing new districts that are more likely to elect Republicans.

If the Supreme Court clears a way for Texas to use the contested map, Republicans may be able to pick up five more seats in the U.S.

House.

But time is running out to change the map for Texas's midterm election.

The state's candidate filing deadline is in about two weeks.

Hansi Lewong, NPR News.

That court found the map's challenges are likely to prove in a trial that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.