Two Federal Judges Bar Citizenship Question on Census

Two Federal Judges Bar Citizenship Question on Census
Balloons at an event to mark the one-year-out launch of the 2020 Census efforts in Boston, Mass., on April 1, 2019. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Matthew Vadum
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Two federal judges have permanently enjoined the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even as the administration denies it still plans to move forward with including the question on the census form.

President Donald Trump was initially defiant after the Supreme Court ruled June 27 in Department of Commerce v. New York that the citizenship question couldn’t be included in the once-a-decade census.