Last week’s announcement by the Trump administration that it intends to include in the 2020 Census a question about citizenship marks the opening salvo in what promises to be a pitched battle over the upcoming decennial “Enumeration.” Within hours of the announcement, California filed suit challenging the citizenship question, New York announced it would lead a coalition of states in a similar challenge (which it filed earlier this week), and various non-governmental advocacy groups scrambled to respond.

Because of the highly polarized dynamic created by the election of Donald Trump, the upcoming Census promises to be a particularly contentious one, and the citizenship question is just the first of what undoubtedly will be many flashpoints. While these flashpoints likely will come in the form of technical methodological disputes, their resolution will have enormous consequences for our democracy, as the final Census results determine the distribution amongst the states of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives (and therefore in the Electoral College) and also determine vast amounts of federal funding flowing to states and localities.

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