The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear an expedited appeal in a case seeking to block the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Critics contend that adding the citizenship question would discourage people, particularly people of color, from responding to the survey. And a top Justice Department official was unable to explain in a sworn deposition how adding the citizenship question would get the department better citizenship data than it already had available. In total, seven different lawsuits have been filed challenging the addition of the citizenship question. This story has been updated to note that the Supreme Court will hear argument in the case in late April.

Source: Huffington Post February 15, 2019 18:45 UTC