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Census 2020: The Citizenship Question

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on Thursday which blocks the addition of a citizenship question to the Census 2020 form, for now.

As NPR reports, the high court ruled in part due to the “government’s explanation for why it added it in the first place.”

The Supreme Court decision comes after two federal courts in New York and California ruled against adding the citizenship question to the form. In both cases the federal judges cited the specific way Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross handled the process and procedures to include the question and “because its inclusion will

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on Thursday which blocks the addition of a citizenship question to the Census 2020 form, for now.

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