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AG Letitia James announces major win over Trump administration in Census case | New York Amsterdam News

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AG Letitia James announces major win over Trump administration in Census case | New York Amsterdam News

[dropcap]New[/dropcap] York Attorney General Letitia James announced a victory in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s decision to demand a question about citizenship information on the 2020 census. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

The decision from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which vacated Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ decision to add the question, states that adding a citizenship question is “unlawful for a multitude of independent reasons.”