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The plan would also strip race, ethnicity and sexual orientation questions from the count that decides how many House seats each state gets.

This undercount could affect everything from the redrawing of congressional maps to the allocation of federal funding.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote that in deciding to add a citizenship question to the census, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated a “veritable smorgasbord” of federal rules and “alternately ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the evidence in the record before him.”