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As census goes to print, Trump administration isn’t giving up on citizenship question

After a Supreme Court decision left open the possibility of justifying the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. census, the Trump administration is exploring ways to do just that. Yamiche Alcindor joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the…

T-shirts are displayed at a community activists and local government leaders event to mark the one-year-out launch of the 2020 Census efforts in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., April 1, 2019. Photo by REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Supreme Court forbids citizenship question on 2020 census

The Supreme Court says the Trump administration's explanation for wanting to add the question was "more of a distraction" than an explanation.

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

Demonstrators rally with cut-outs of congressional districts in front of the Supreme court before oral arguments on Benisek v. Lamone, a redistricting case on whether Democratic lawmakers in Maryland unlawfully drew a congressional district in a way that would prevent a Republican candidate from winning, in Washington, U.S., March 28, 2018. Photo by REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Supreme Court says federal courts have no role in policing partisan gerrymandering

In a decision that could reshape U.S. politics, the Supreme Court says federal courts have no role in policing partisan redistricting.

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

Nationwide, 38 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the nation’s largest safety net program for food and nutrition, but the ongoing government shutdown puts access to food at risk. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Quest for food stamp data lands newspaper at Supreme Court

In the summer of 2010, reporters at South Dakota’s Argus Leader newspaper decided to request data about the government’s food assistance program, previously known as food stamps. Trying to get that data has taken the paper more than eight years…

By Jessica Gresko, Associated Press

Texas bans all clergy from executions after Supreme Court ruling

By Jake Bleiberg, Associated Press

The Supreme Court blocked the execution of a Buddhist man who said his religious freedom would be violated if his spiritual adviser couldn't accompany him.

Want to fix gerrymandering? Then the Supreme Court needs to listen to mathematicians

By Manil Suri, Karen Saxe, The Conversation

Supreme Court justices have previously called statistical methods of measuring partisan gerrymandering 'sociological gobbledygook' and 'a bunch of baloney.'…

Special Episode: State of the Union Aftershow

By PBS NewsHour

The State of the Union fanfare is gone. What now? Join the PBS NewsHour’s Amna Nawaz, Lisa Desjardins, Yamiche Alcindor and Daniel Bush as they dig into President Donald Trump’s speech and the Democratic response. Which statements have traction and…

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Is banning trans troops a legal tactic to reverse civil rights?

By Ivette Feliciano

U.S. Supreme Court cases involving the discrimination of trans people, either by banning them from the military or firing them because of their sex, have much more at stake than is often perceived. Chase Strangio, an attorney at ACLU’s LGBT…

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Millions of Americans’ health care under a ‘possible cloud’ after federal court ruling

By PBS NewsHour Weekend

A coalition of states with Democratic leadership is promising to appeal a Texas federal court ruling on Friday that aimed to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act. The case was brought by a group of Republican state attorneys general and…

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