Citizenship question has been barred from the 2020 Census. What happens now?

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 3: Signs sit behind the podium before the start of a press conference with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to announce a multi-state lawsuit to block the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census form, at the headquarters of District Council 37, New York City's largest public employee union, April 3, 2018 in New York City. Critics of President Donald Trump's administration's decision to reinstate the citizenship question contend that that it will frighten people in immigrant communities from responding to the census. The Trump administration has stated a citizenship question on the census will help enforce voting rights. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday has barred the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman didn’t push back against the constitutionality of the question. Rather, Furman argued that the question was added arbitrarily and did not follow proper procedure. A dozen immigrant rights groups, states and certain cities also criticize the question, saying that it may hinder immigrant households from participating in the federally mandated census. This decision isn’t final, however. A separate suit on the same issue, filed by the state of California, is underway in San Francisco. The U.S. Supreme Court is also poised to address the issue in February.

With files from the Associated Press

Guests:

Steven Shepard, chief polling analyst for POLITICO; he’s been following the story.

Jonathan Entin, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio