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<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: The 2020 Census Citizenship Question Isn’t Dead Yet

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, declaring that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated federal law by providing the public with false rationales on its inclusion. Groups suspicious of the question have long fretted that it could lead undocumented immigrants to forgo filling out the census. Now comes an appeal to the Supreme Court, but even if the administration doesn’t get its way,

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