Trump’s Census Citizenship Question Faces Test in Supreme Court Clash
- Supreme Court case to affect federal money, U.S. House seats
- Lower court said Ross violated law in adding census question
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was determined to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 U.S. census -- so determined that he committed a "veritable smorgasbord" of legal violations to get his way, according to a federal judge.
Now the effort by President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary is before the Supreme Court, which will hear the government’s appeal Tuesday in one of the biggest cases of the nine-month term. It will be the court’s first direct review of an administration initiative since the justices upheld the president’s travel ban last year.