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NEW: Another federal judge, this time in Maryland, has rejected the Trump administration's effort to get legal challenges to the inclusion of a citizenship question in the 2020 Census tossed out of court assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4780…
Last month, a federal judge in Manhattan denied the administration's motion to get one of the citizenship question lawsuits dismissed in that court, see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The judge in Maryland found that the plaintiffs sufficiently alleged at this early stage of the case that a citizenship question in the Census doesn't bear a “reasonable relationship to the accomplishment of an actual enumeration of the population"
The judge also found that the challengers "made a strong preliminary showing that Defendants have acted in
bad faith" in adopting the citizenship question, and will let them seek more info from the government
Judge: "The Administrative Record suggests that the citizenship question was an answer in search of a problem." assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4780…
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On Monday night the Commerce Dept, with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that:

In Keeping with the request from the Justice Dept, that they will be adding a citizenship question to the #2020Census questionnaire.

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amp.nymag.com/daily/intellig…
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