Enumeration Clause

WASHINGTON, DC – Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote in a sharply divided Supreme Court that voted 5-4 in deciding the U.S. census can ask about citizenship, but by a separate 5-4 vote is sending the case back to the lower court.

Can the U.S. census ask each person in the country if he is an American citizen? The Supreme Court will hear arguments on that question on Tuesday.