The 2024 Presidential Election May Be Decided in a New York City Courtroom

  • Trump team says adding query to census protects ballot rights
  • States claim it’s a naked play to suppress the minority vote
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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“Is this person a citizen of the United States?”

The question, due to appear on the 2020 census for the first time in 70 years, has spurred a trial starting Monday in which President Donald Trump’s administration is accused of trying to dilute the political power of immigrants and noncitizens by scaring them away from the once-a-decade survey.