Attorney General Barr: Citizenship Question Can Be Legally Added to 2020 Census

Attorney General Barr: Citizenship Question Can Be Legally Added to 2020 Census
U.S. Attorney General William Barr delivers remarks during a farewell ceremony for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Building in Washington on May 9, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
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Attorney General William Barr said the Trump administration can legally add the citizenship question to the 2020 Census.

The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that the rationale the administration provided for adding the question—that it would enforce the Voting Rights Act—was “contrived,” seeming to block, at least temporarily, the addition of the question.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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