The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a potentially crippling blow to the Trump Administration’s attempt to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 U.S. Census when it declined to overturn three lower-court rulings blocking its inclusion because a majority of Justices expressed skepticism about its motivations.
The decisive vote in the 5-4 ruling came from Chief Judge John G. Roberts Jr., who broke with the conservative bloc with which he is often aligned and, writing the majority opinion, stated that the explanation offered by the Trump Administration “appears to have been contrived.”
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