Supreme Court conservatives appear poised to support Trump administration in census dispute

By Melissa Quinn

Published April 23, 2019 5:30pm ET

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Supreme Court conservatives appear poised to support Trump administration in census dispute — Supreme Court Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, left, and Brett Kavanaugh watch as President Trump arrives to give his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 in Washington. | (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

An ideologically divided Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to back the Trump administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

For roughly 80 minutes, the justices heard arguments in a challenge to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to include a question about citizenship on the census form, which lower court judges have found to be a violation of federal law and the Constitution.

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