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Los Angeles County officials celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday morning that blocked the Trump Administration’s attempt to add a question asking people their citizenship status to the 2020 Census, saying the justification for such a question was inadequate.

Instead, the Supreme Court is giving the Trump administration another chance to come up with an explanation for why the citizenship question is needed, saying that there was not enough evidence to support U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ rationale that a citizenship question would allow the government to enforce the Voting Rights Act, according to the New York Times.

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