From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.

Today, federal courts keep rejecting President Trump's attempts to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census.

Why, no matter what the courts decide, the president may already have achieved his goal.

It's Thursday, July 11th.

The latest battle between Democrats and the Trump administration is over a question.

Are you a United States citizen? Commerce Department on Monday announced the upcoming 2020 census will include that question for the first time since 1950.

There is a question.

No!

Is citizenship for Democrats?

Yes!

You know, critics are saying it's basically the perfect way for the Trump administration to target immigrants and perhaps then lead to less resources and immigrant communities.

What do we want?

What do we want?

The Justice Department says the data is needed to help enforce the voting rights act.

The New York Times reports at least 12 states plan to sue the Trump administration to block it from asking a citizenship question in the 2020 census.

And we start with that breaking news from the Supreme Court just moments ago.

The high court ruling against the Trump administration's bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Despite the Trump administration's attempt to politicize the census and divide our nation, we, the people prevailed.

So Adam Lipsack, the last time we talked to you, you told us that you thought it was pretty likely that the Supreme Court would allow the Trump administration to add a question about citizenship to the census.

I was quite confident the five conservatives in the majority of the Supreme Court would allow the Trump administration to add this question, which of course everybody agrees would suppress participation in the census, discourage both legal and unauthorized immigrants from answering.

And when I came out of that argument, I felt pretty confident about that and that's what I told you and I turned out to be wrong.

It happens.

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