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By June 17, the Trump administration’s push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census was already deep in legal and political trouble. The problem was no longer just the policy; it was the increasingly obvious mismatch between the government’s stated rationale and the evidence around it.
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By June 17, the Trump administration’s push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census was already deep in legal and political trouble. The problem was no longer just the policy; it was the increasingly obvious mismatch between the government’s stated rationale and the evidence around it.
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