Reopened Legal Challenge to Census Citizenship Question Throws Case Into Chaos
The battle over whether to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census was thrown into turmoil on Tuesday, just as the Supreme Court was expected to issue a ruling on the dispute this week.
By allowing a district judge to reopen a case related to the origin of the citizenship question, a federal appeals court raised the prospect that the federal government might be unable to meet a deadline for completing census questionnaires that include it, regardless of the Supreme Court's ruling.