Federal judge orders trial over census citizenship question
A federal judge Wednesday rejected a request from the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its addition of a question regarding citizenship to the 2020 census.
U.S. District Court Judge George J. Hazels ruling paves the way for a trial in January to determine if the question is constitutional.
The parties will be permitted to present evidence outside of the administrative record at trial; The defense will be permitted to argue at the close of trial that such evidence should not be considered in the Courts final decision, Hazel wrote in his decision.
Latino and Asian-American groups filed the original suit in May claiming that the question would disenfranchise minority residents who are not citizens and lead to underrepresentation in Congress and unfair allocation of federal funds to communities of color.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/422203-federal-judge-orders-trial-over-citizenship-census-question