Federal judge blocks Trump administration from adding citizenship question to 2020 census

Published January 15, 2019 3:03pm ET



A federal judge in New York Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

In a ruling Tuesday, Judge Jesse Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, vacated Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to add the question to the census questionnaire and enjoined the administration from asking about citizenship on the census “without curing the legal defects” he identified.

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