A third federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, ruling Friday that it poses a 'substantial risk' of undercounting Hispanics and non-citizens.
In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies during the House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A third federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge George Hazel in Maryland ruled Friday, April 5, 2019, that the addition of a citizenship question is “arbitrary and capricious.” Ross added a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Federal judges in New York and California previously barred the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the census for the first time since 1950. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on April 23 for the Justice Department's appeal of the New York judge's decision.
Because of the tight timeframe for printing census forms, the high court granted unusually quick review of the first decision that went against the administration. That ruling, from a federal judge in New York, held that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' decision to have the census ask about citizenship was "arbitrary and capricious" under federal law.
The Census Bureau began collecting citizenship data through the annual American Community Survey in 2005. Government lawyers said in a court filing that Ross decided to use the same wording from that "well-tested question" on the ACS for the citizenship question on the 2020 census.
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