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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether voting districts should continue to be drawn by using census population data, which include noncitizen immigrants, or whether the system should be changed to count only citizens eligible to vote.

39%

San
Diego

Redding

Bakersfield

Fresno

Sacramento

San
Francisco

Los Angeles

Noncitizen population

Noncitizen population

State Assembly districts

L.A. City Council districts

45

40

30

20

10%

40

30

20

10

0%

(highest)
Assembly District 53
includes downtown

3

11

5

13

1

15

9

8

10

14

4

2

6

7

12

Lorena Elebee, Len DeGroot / @latimesgraphics

Sources: State of California, city of Los Angeles

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