question was pretextual, and they sent it back to the lower courts. that opened the question of whether or not the citizenship question would ultimately be included on the census. the legal question is still technically open. this is all plaitiying out agai a printing deadline. the department of justice said they needed to start printing by july 1st in order to meet that deadline. the plaintiffs in that case said, no, you have up until october you can make changes. the fact the government has said, no, we're going to go ahead and print these without the question, i think it does settle the matter, at least for this round of the census. >> explain for folks at home and for me as well, you know, what the supreme court ruling actually was on this. you say it left the legal question open. the lower courts had not provided enough clarity? explain. >> so the supreme court case is sort of a nightmare law exam, essentially. the argument here was the department of justice said that the government was including this citizenship question in order to enforce provisions of