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On the eve of July 4, the administration was still telling a federal judge it wanted to keep trying to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, despite the Supreme Court having already blocked the current rationale. That meant the White House was barreling ahead with a legally shaky idea even after the courts had slapped it down.
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On the eve of July 4, the administration was still telling a federal judge it wanted to keep trying to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, despite the Supreme Court having already blocked the current rationale. That meant the White House was barreling ahead with a legally shaky idea even after the courts had slapped it down.
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