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Supreme court backs partisan voting maps, puts census citizenship question on hold

By Bloomberg
28 June 2019   |   12:54 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution doesn’t let judges throw out voting maps for being too partisan and put on hold the Trump administration’s plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Bloomberg's Greg Stohr reports on "Balance of Power."

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