U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman’s Jan. 15 ruling blocking the U.S. Commerce Department’s attempt to use a citizenship question as part of the 2020 Census reached conclusions that might define the entire Trump Administration.
Even before exploring the judge’s reasons why reintroduction of a question that was last asked for the 1950 Census would have been improper based on Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s actions to implement it, the arguments advanced by the administration were revealing.
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