[Here’s what you need to know about the debate over adding a citizenship question to the census.] But by ruling that the Trump administration offered no credible reason for proposing the question, the justices placed a daunting hurdle before the government, which must print questionnaires and other 2020 census documents within months, if not weeks, to keep the head count on schedule. That proceeding, which the justices made no effort to stop on Thursday, appears likely to stretch at least into late August. “But I struggle to see the path by which the citizenship question ends up on the 2020 census form,” he added. In their rulings on Thursday, the justices stated pointedly that their decisions were legal opinions, not political ones.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2019 18:17 UTC