U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said the question 'threatens the very foundation of our democratic system'
A federal judge issued a ruling Wednesday blocking the Trump administration from including a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Seeborg is now the second federal judge to rule against the inclusion of the question on the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York issued an earlier ruling halting Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s plan to include the question.
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