This announcement was made just an hour before the federal judge on the case said he wanted an answer about the inclusion. Otherwise, he was going to decide on whether the Hofeller material clearly showed discriminatory intent.
That would have kept it from going to SCOTUS. But let’s face it, the administration lies like the proverbial rug. So we’ll see.
The racist Nationalists are going to be very upset that they didn’t get their citizenship question on the census and will probably now turn to the fascist Federalist Society to sue everybody in sight.