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A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration\u2019s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census was unlawful.<\/span><\/p>\n In his ruling, Judge Jesse Furman, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said Commerce Secretary\u00a0Wilbur Ross’<\/span><\/span><\/span>s decision to add the question to the census was “arbitrary and capricious” and enjoined the administration from including it on the questionnaire.<\/p>\n Furman, an Obama appointee, said Ross violated a statute that requires him to collect data through the acquisition and use of “administrative records” instead of through “direct inquiries” on a survey such as the census.<\/span><\/p>\n Ross announced in March that he was granting a request from the\u00a0Justice Department to reinstate the citizenship question on the decennial population count to help the agency better enforce the Voting Rights Act.<\/span><\/p>\n The decision led to a flurry of lawsuits across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n In his 277-page ruling, Furman called Ross\u2019s violations of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) “egregious.”<\/span><\/p>\n “He failed to consider several important aspects of the problem; alternately ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the evidence in the record before him; acted irrationally both in light of that evidence and his own stated decisional criteria; and failed to justify significant departures from past policies and practices \u2014 a veritable smorgasbord of classic, clear-cut APA violations,” he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n Furman said he was unable to find that Ross’s decision to add the question was a pretext for impermissible discrimination, as the challengers had argued.\u00a0The judge said that was due, in part, to the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to temporarily block a court order\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n seal:\u00a0 simple.wikipedia.org<\/em><\/p>\n To read the complete 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