Supreme Court Justices Seem to Split on Adding Citizenship Question to Census

Supreme Court Justices Seem to Split on Adding Citizenship Question to Census
Forms for Census 2010 in Washington on April 1, 2010. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices split on ideological grounds on April 23 during high-stakes oral arguments about the legality of the Trump administration’s decision to ask individuals responding to the 2020 Census whether they are U.S. citizens.

The results from the once-a-decade census, which counts both legal and illegal residents of the United States, are important because they are used to allocate federal dollars and determine representation in Congress.