Appeals court sends census dispute back to Maryland judge

A federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, sent a challenge to the addition of a citizenship question to the census back to the lower court to determine whether the Trump administration acted with discriminatory intent when it decided to ask about citizenship.

The divided three-judge panel on the 4th^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in an order Tuesday it was remanding the case back to the federal district court in Maryland for further proceedings on equal protection claims.