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Can the census ask if you're a citizen? Here's what's at stake in court battles over the 2020 census

  • Written by Jonathan Entin, Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
Critics worry a citizenship question will dissuade people from answering census takers in 2020.U.S. Census Bureau, CC BY-NC-ND

For the first time in decades, the 2020 census will include a question asking whether or not each counted person is a citizen.

When Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross directed that the 2020 census include that question, he...

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