Supreme Court Asked to Delay Decision on Citizenship Question in Census

Supreme Court Asked to Delay Decision on Citizenship Question in Census
Forms for Census 2010 in Washington on April 1, 2010. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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WASHINGTON—Claiming new evidence contradicts the Trump administration’s rationale for wanting to ask 2020 Census respondents whether they are U.S. citizens, a left-wing open-borders group is asking the Supreme Court to delay its upcoming decision in the case.

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

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