Supreme Court lets upcoming census trial move forward

By Melissa Quinn

Published November 2, 2018 9:56pm ET

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The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the upcoming trial over the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census to proceed, the court said late Friday.

The trial is scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in New York City, but the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court this week to put the trial on hold, a request the court denied.

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