“Do I think it was accurate to within 89? No.” Cuomo told reporters at a Tuesday press conference. “And we’re looking at legal options. Because when you’re talking about 89. That could be a minor mistake in counting.”
The Democrat said he’d asked the state’s attorney general to review whether there were legal grounds for a lawsuit.
States have gone to court to challenge census counts in past decades. But none of those lawsuits have led to an adjustment of how many congressional representatives is entitled to, a process called apportionment.
“So it’d be a first if New York were to succeed,” said Janna Johnson, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs and a member of a U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee.