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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
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.