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Supreme Court hears arguments on census citizenship question

April 24, 2019

Via: Jurist

The US Supreme Court heard arguments in three cases Tuesday, including a case challenging the Trump administration’s citizenship question in the 2020 census, another concerning the Fourth Amendment’s scope in relation to blood draw of unconscious motorists, and the last regarding the meaning of “knowingly violates” under the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act.

In Department of Commerce v. New York, the court is considering whether Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) when he decided to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census to obtain records of non-citizens in the US.

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