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Op opposite, but we had four hung together as they almost always did and one of the conservatives came over. those case may not have the significance of partisan gerrymandering. >> but the census case. >> it might well but who knows in the end what will happen with the census. its a narrow decision. overall you would say there were a lot of surprises, particularly with the new justice, justice gorsuch relatively new being willing to come over with the left more often. >> and voting against justi...

One of the presidents financial advisers larry kudlow was here at the white house and i asked him if he had a reaction and heres what he had to say. >> its out of my lane. im not well versed in it. i dont want to mislead you. >> i think theyre going to be very careful about how they respond to this because it appears that the court rejected their efforts to put a citizenship question on the census because of their motivations because it became clear that it seemed to be a political move. the whi...

Challenge. pete, walk us through this decision and why its so important. >> two big decisions today, craig. first of all the supreme court at least for now and probably in the long term as well has blocked the trump administration from putting a question on the 2020 census for about citizenship. so its a victory for 18 states and immigrants rights groups who had sued the government saying the government didnt have a good reason for doing this saying that they wanted to better enforce the voting ...

Citizen of the united states. >> now, the essence of the administrations argument was that they wanted this question to help enforce the voting rights act which of course republicans in recent years have gutted. so a lot of the administrations critics, especially democrats and immigration rights add row indicates and civil rights advocates said immediately this seems to be a ploy to get this question on the census so that they -- because they knew that it would cause an undercount in minority an...