Blue States have quietly gamed the Census to their advantage for decades.
Their con is about to be shut down.
And the Missouri attorney general just made a move that has Democrats in blue states absolutely terrified, and she's not stopping until it reaches the Supreme Court.
Missouri AG Lawsuit Targets Illegal Immigrant Census Apportionment
Missouri Attorney General Katherine Hanaway filed a federal lawsuit demanding the Census Bureau stop counting illegal aliens when calculating congressional representation.
"We are confident that the Census Bureau is going to start to plan for a census in 2030 where we don't count illegal immigrants," Hanaway said in an interview on the Just the News Not Noise program.
She's not stopping at 2030.
Without a permanent court order, the next Democratic president could reverse everything – exactly the way Biden wiped out Trump's 2020 executive action the moment he took office.
"We're going to get a new president in 2028 and we just can't be assured that he'll do the right thing," Hanaway said.
The goal is a Supreme Court ruling that locks the policy in place permanently, no matter who sits in the Oval Office.
How Illegal Immigrants Hijacked American Representation
The scheme is simple once you understand it.
The Constitution requires a census every ten years – and every person counted translates directly into congressional seats and Electoral College votes.
Biden's open border didn't just flood communities with millions of illegal immigrants.
It handed California and New York a bonus in political power – more House seats, more Electoral College votes – without those non-citizens casting a single ballot.
Hanaway argues Missouri was robbed of a congressional seat after the 2020 census because of this exact setup.
"We just, from our lawsuit alone, project that somewhere between 11 and 14 congressional seats will move from places like New York and California to places like Missouri, Tennessee and Georgia," she said.
The Center for Immigration Studies backs that up – counting illegal immigrants in 2020 cost heartland states real representation while handing coastal blue states seats they never legitimately earned.
Trump Census Order and State Lawsuits Target 2030 Count
Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio, and West Virginia filed their own lawsuit in January 2025, targeting the Census Bureau's "Residence Rule" – the policy that counts everyone present regardless of legal status.
President Trump ordered the Census Bureau in August 2025 to begin planning a 2030 census that excludes illegal immigrants entirely.
Missouri's filing goes even further, demanding the 2020 census itself be recalculated.
Hanaway's legal case goes straight to the Founders.
They wrote "persons" into the Constitution – but their intent was never to hand congressional representation to foreign nationals who entered the country illegally.
"We believe that the Founding Fathers and the court decisions interpreting those provisions since then, intended it to be people who were legally permanently in the United States," she said.
How Democrats Used the Census to Stack Congressional Seats
Trump tried to fix this in 2020, ordering illegal immigrants excluded from the apportionment count.
Biden reversed it on Day One.
Not because of some principled stand on the Constitution.
Because blue-state Democrats need inflated population counts to hold congressional seats their actual citizen populations can't justify.
Hanaway is blunt about where this ends.
"This is a case that really could last for a couple of generations," she said. "And when you combine that with Louisiana, it can make all the difference in who's running this country."
Up to 14 congressional seats shifting from New York and California to Missouri, Tennessee, and Georgia doesn't just change the House – it changes who wins the presidency.
Trump locked the border.
Now Missouri is coming for the Census.
Sources:
- Nicholas Ballasy, "Trump and allies launch Census strategy that could upend blue states' advantage with illegal aliens," Just the News, February 22, 2026.
- "Missouri launches sweeping lawsuit to block census from counting illegal immigrants," Fox News, February 2026.
- "Immigrant rights groups seek to dismiss a Republican lawsuit to exclude noncitizens from US census," Washington Times, February 10, 2026.
- "Blue states lose congressional seats to red states in 2030 census analysis," Fox News, January 2026.
- "The Impact of Legal and Illegal Immigration on the Apportionment of Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020," Center for Immigration Studies, December 2019.
