The court banned the Trump administration to ask about citizenship during the census

On January 15, a federal judge in New York banned the administration of US President Donald Trump from adding the issue of citizenship to the 2020 census of the year.

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US District Judge Jesse Furman ruled that, although the issue of citizenship is constitutional, Secretary of the US Commerce Department Wilbur Ross added it to the census questionnaire arbitrarily, without following the proper procedure, writes Fox News.

“Secretary Ross's decision to include a citizenship question in the 2020 Census did not violate the Constitution itself, but was unlawful for multiple independent reasons and should therefore be reversed,” the court's decision said.

One of the irregularities in the proper procedure is that Ross did not follow the law requiring him to notify Congress of any plan to add a question to the census three years before the question was added.

A dozen US states and major cities, as well as human rights groups, argued that the Department of Commerce, which is developing questionnaires for the population census, did not properly analyze the impact of adding this issue to the census on the lives of immigrant families.

The US Department of Justice stated that he was disappointed with the decision of the court and is still studying it.

“Secretary Ross, the only person with legal authority over the census, rightly decided to reinstate the citizenship question in the 2020 Census in response to the Department of Justice's request for better citizenship data to protect voters from racial discrimination. Our government has the legal right to include a citizenship question on the census questionnaire, and people in the United States have a legal obligation to answer it. Restoring the citizenship question ultimately protects voting rights and helps ensure free and fair elections for all Americans,” said Department of Justice spokeswoman Kelly Lacko.

The Department of Commerce last May announced the addition of a nationality issue to the population census questionnaire in 2020 in response to a request made by the Department of Justice in December 2017.

In addition to the lawsuit already reviewed, the state of California also went to court because of this decision by the Department of Finance, this lawsuit is being considered in a San Francisco court. The US Supreme Court should also consider this issue next month.

The census is a requirement of the US Constitution, and its results are used to determine federal spending, as well as the number of seats in Congress allocated to each state for the next decade, and the number of votes in each region of the United States.

Republicans largely supported the idea of ​​introducing the issue of citizenship in the census questionnaire. Democrats said the inclusion of such a question is tantamount to trying to intimidate immigrant communities and take money and the right to influence the lives of the communities in which they live.

At the same time, the Department of Commerce declared that almost every ten-year population census between 1820 and 1950 had "had a citizenship issue in one form or another."

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