The Trump administration on Tuesday said it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a federal judge’s decision that rejected the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 census, marking the latest rush to the justices before an appeals court has weighed in.

The U.S. Justice Department urged the high court to move quickly to hear and decide the citizenship issue this term because of a looming June deadline for printing the census questionnaire. The government is challenging U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman’s Jan. 15 ruling, which said Trump officials violated various federal laws in moving to include the citizenship question.

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