Picture a shareholder meeting where the company hands out voting proxies to anyone who wandered in off the street, share certificate or not. That is roughly how America has apportioned its House of Representatives for two centuries, and on Sept. 9, the Trump administration finally proposed fixing it.

The Census Bureau’s new rule, headed for the Federal Register this week, would redraw the population count used to divide the House’s 435 seats among the states for the 2030 count. Citizens and green card holders would count. People living here illegally, along with many people on temporary visas, generally would not. The bureau argues those groups lack the “tie and allegiance” to the country that a qualifying “usual residence” requires. The public gets until Oct. 13 to comment before a final rule and, almost certainly, a lawsuit.