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Federal appeals court orders fact-finding on intent of census citizenship question

June 26, 2019

Via: Jurist

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday granted a motion to remand the Fifth Amendment equal protection claim and the 42 USC § 1985 claim in a Maryland case against Wilbur Ross, US Secretary of Commerce, where the plaintiff claimed that the motives behind the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census were discriminatory.

Now that discovery is re-opened and evidentiary hearing is likely, the district court will probably decide whether the government should be enjoined from adding the citizenship question to the 2020 census after the target date to finalize the census questionnaire, which is June 30, 2019.

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