From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Emerson Sykes, a staff attorney here at the ACLU and your host.

In one of the most highly anticipated decisions of its term, the Supreme Court just ruled that the Trump administration cannot add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, at least not for now.

We're here with Dale Ho, the ACLU lawyer who argued the case, to walk us through this victory.

Dale, welcome back to Out Liberty.

Thank you so much.

So remind us why this

case is so important. Sure. This case is about the census. The Constitution requires a complete count

of every living person in the United States every 10 years. It's a pillar of our representative

democracy. You can't have government by the people, of the people, for the people, unless you know how many people there are and where they live.

This question was designed to wreck that count, to deprive communities of color and immigrant communities of the representation to which they're entitled under the Constitution.

We sued, and we succeeded today in preventing

the administration's plans. So what exactly did the court decide today? Today the court decided that

the administration's decision violated the Federal Administrative Procedure Act because the reason

for the decision was, in the court's words, contrived.

The Trump administration claimed that they added the question because they needed it to better enforce the Voting Rights Act.

And Chief Justice Roberts, writing for a majority, basically called that bluff, said, we see you.

We know that this is not why you're adding this question. And federal

law requires you to be honest about the reasons for the decisions that you're making.

You weren't honest here, so your decision is invalid.

Well, it's quite noteworthy, right? I mean, it's a long decision. It's a complicated decision.

There are concurrences in part and dissents in part. But that last

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