What is the US citizenship question?

New team of government lawyers to take over US census cases following Supreme Court block

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the media outside the White House
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The US Department of Justice has announced a shake-up of its team of lawyers handling 2020 census-related cases, amid an ongoing legal battle over a citizenship question that Donald Trump wants added to the upcoming national survey.

The move comes after the Supreme Court last month blocked an initial attempt by the president to alter the census forms to ask: “Is this person a citizen of the United States?”

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