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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to halt census counting

By Haley Victory Smith
Published October 13, 2020 11:11pm ET
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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to halt census counting
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)

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to halt counting efforts for the 2020 census.

The decision was released on Tuesday, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only justice who dissented.

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