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Second Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Census Citizenship Question Plans

A second federal judge has issued a court ruling against the administration's plans to ask whether every person living in the country is a U.S. citizen in the 2020 census.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross stands behind President Trump at the White House in 2018. Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved adding to the 2020 census a question asking, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"

A second federal judge has issued a court order to block the Trump administration's plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of Californiafound that the administration's decision to add the question violated administrative law.

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