Federal judge: Lawsuit challenging census citizenship question can proceed

By Melissa Quinn

Published July 26, 2018 3:45pm ET

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Federal judge: Lawsuit challenging census citizenship question can proceed — FILE - This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states. But not a single Republican attorney general has sued _ not even from states with large immigrant populations. | (Michelle R. Smith/AP)

A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census is allowed to proceed, a federal judge in New York ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Court Judge Jesse Furman rejected a request from the administration to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed by 18 states and the District of Columbia, and several advocacy groups.

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